If you weren’t outside this planet over the last few weeks, you heard some sabre rattling.
Following the guidelines that I described in the previous article (see “Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI“), this article was inspired by simply connecting strings of unrelated but mutually influencing news items.
This part of the AGB2009 series (see the presentation)
AGB2009: evolving alliances
BACKGROUND
In business, alliances are often a matter more of opportunity than choice- the lesser of two evils.
ABSTRACT
The lifespan of an alliance? Have a quick look at the European alliances since the French revolution: few alliances lasted more than a generation.
Also if we are now used to see NATO as long-term relationship, slightly more than 60 years ago the first seeds of the alliance, during the African side of WWII, didn’t seem promising: a coordination nightmare.
The old joke, that NATO was created to keep the Germans in and the Russians out is but part of the reason why, in the end, the bloc was able to operate also beyond its original purposes.
AGB2009: Bridges
Sunday, November 1st, 2009This part of the AGB2009 series (see the presentation)
AGB2009: BRIDGES
BACKGROUND
I know what some of the locals would say.
But, on an overall “helicopter view”, it is irrelevant.
ABSTRACT
Mixing change in politics and business is always a risky affair- and I am not referring to the tulip craze.
Just read the enclosed bibliography.
I might be wrong- but changing a culture requires a long-term view, that sometimes requires more real-politik and less short-term results.
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