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NEW Transforming the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex Is So Difficult 
NEW Keystone Decision - Burn or Opportunity
NEW The Missing Piece in Henry Mintzberg Managing
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Policy/Strategy
Global Complexity - New Opportunities
Management, in the broadest sense, will have to undergo a sea change. Complexity will reward new perspectives in governance that embrace greater reliance on collegiality, analysis and objectivity in developing a long term strategy for directed change…. The challenge to management, whether it be in government, business or public interest organizations, is to have the motivation and capacity to take complexity into account in decision-making processes. Read More
Keystone Decision - Burn or Opportunity
US Decision on Keystone: a Burn of the Oil Sands or an Opportunity? The recent US decision to defer the decision on the Keystone pipeline illustrates how much political pressure special interest environmental lobbies can muster. This is a reality not be ignored. Canada may become a clean energy superpower, but leaving the leadership and impetus to individual companies in the private sector alone isn’t working. Read More
Why Transforming the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex Is So Difficult (Part I)
The National Research Council’s (NRC) February 2012 report on Managing for High-Quality
Science and Engineering at the NNSA National Security Laboratories is the latest in a series of
studies that lament the state of science and engineering (S&E) and the management of S&E in the
Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Weapons Complex. Read More
The Best is Yet to Come! The Ted Rogers Story
The basic principles apply to the entrepreneur, and they can make the entrepreneurial businesses grow better, with fewer flameouts, and less wreckage. The Ted Rogers story shows nine take-home ideas for entrepreneurs early in their career. Read More