Phi Beta Iota: General Dempsey is not correct. This is not the first time the integrity of the Armed Force leadership has been questioned — but it is the first time those being questioned are uneasy enough to notice. Good people trapped in a bad system do bad things not because they are trying to be evil, but because the system distorts their reality. Flag officers — and most especially American flag officers — tend to be far removed from reality because they are embedded in a system that disconnects them from reality. Every word they see or hear has been sculpted by legions of subordinates whose duty is not to serve the public, but instead to serve the system. Below, from Ben Gilad, arugably the most talented commercial intelligence professor in the English language, is helpful: Top managers’ information is invariably either biased, subjecive, filtered or late. . . . Using intelligence correctly requires a fundamental change in the way top executives make decisions. General Dempsey is not getting the truth served up to him. Period. He could, if he took it upon himself to cut through the brambles that isolate him from the truth, rapidly begin getting the truth on strategy, on policy, on acquisition, and on operations, and getting that truth with a full leavening of informed opinion from the BRICS, EU, NATO, and the regional associations, as well as from below among the eight “tribes” of information-sharing and sense-making across America. You have to want the truth real bad. Once you get a taste of the truth, you are a changed person, and much more valuable to the larger body of men and women who assume — without justification — that they are being managed on the basis of ethical evidence-based decision-support.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:58:16 +0000
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