At one point, euphemistically referring to troops as “resources,” McChrystal writes, “Resources will not win the war, but under-resourcing could lose it.” Another way to reads this sentence is: Under-resourcing could lose the war, but more resources won’t necessarily win it, either.
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2 months ago • 0 notesUp until this time, I had actually never considered myself a BA because I had never actually given it any thought! As a self employed consultant, the only thing that matters is doing a good enough job to keep people wanting you to come back. So to that end, I didn’t worry so much about what I was called, provided that my clients were happy and the invoice was paid. But even if I wasn’t a consultant, I think that role titles often do not reflect reality and they also have a pigeonholing effect, depending on the attitudes and perceptions of what others think that role entails. Many position titles were discussed, “Solutions Architect”, “Business Architect”, “Change Manager” and some that were so pretentious that they bordered on wanky. More fancy words with no more clarity. No wonder many BA’s are struggling a bit for a sense of identity.
Interesting piece for my BA friends.
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2 months ago • 0 notesThis is a test. This is only ANOTHER test.
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2 months ago • 0 notesMaybe hashtags need to be in the title.
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2 months ago • 0 notesTwitter, Tumblr, and Facebook, plus Yammer thru hashtag #yam
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2 months ago • 0 notesThey have no power of self-control because they have no allegiance — to a deity, to human flourishing, to community — that might serve as a check on their insatiable curiosity. (Curiosity is inherently insatiable; its satisfactions are only momentary; there is always another horizon.)
In short, curiosity — sometimes called research, sometimes called unfettered inquiry, sometimes called progress, sometimes called academic freedom — is their God. The question, posed by thinkers from Aquinas to Augustine to Newman to Griffiths, is whether this is the God — the God, ultimately, of self — we want to worship. Given the evidence, …the answer would seem to be yes.
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Did not come half way to finish on schedule.
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2 months ago • 0 notesFrank Patrick
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Frank Patrick
senior project manager
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m. 908.500.1844
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2 months ago • 0 notesInteresting - Fastest rising searches globally included four things I’ve never heard of: 3 European country-specific social networks (for Spain, Poland, Germany), and a big soccer tournament, Euro 2008.
Not so interesting - The only search item I couldn’t identify in the US Fastest Rising was “David Cook”. Turns out he had something to do with something called American Idol.
10 months ago • 0 notes“A new religion course taught in schools across Quebec was intended to improve inter-cultural understanding, but so far it is generating deep division as hundreds of parents pull their children out of class.”
I have trouble understanding why people whose beliefs are so strong that they believe there is no other valid worldview are so threatened by education about the existence and content of other belief systems. Are they afraid that they might end up questioning and weakening what they feel so strongly?
As one who has given up his belief in anything supernatural, I find myself fascinated by the beliefs of others, their doctrinal and dogmatic content, and their history. (Sometimes I think atheists and agnostics think far more about religion than the religious.) If for no other reason, it’s because I recognize that the world is full of believers and that their actions, their passions, and their politics will have great imact on my public life.
11 months ago • 0 notesI am furious about all of this, because of all the bone-headed things I have seen Congress do, the giveaways for the farmers, the foreign aid to Iraq and so many other places, the hundreds of billions spent for weapons systems that the generals and admirals don’t even want and the money spent on FNM and FRE and AIG, this was the one plan that might have been a real win for the American people.
And now it is gone.
Disgraceful.
And trillions will now be lost in the credit markets, the stock market and in housing net worth. Maybe the purists and puritans believe that this is right. But for everyone who has ever saved a dime and worked hard and invested in a home or a stock, this is a disaster of unimaginable proportions that it will take as long as the Great Depression did for us to get over.
