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Topic: War and Conflict

  

Driving in the Valley of the Shadow of Death

It's the management problem from hell: How do you run a company whose customers and employees are being killed?READ»

MEDIA   |  Comment

Media: Message of Fear

After nearly three years, Osama bin Laden has resurfaced in American mainstream media. A video emerged on Tuesday featuring the terror leader's still image and his voice in which he praises the 19 "champions" (suicide hijackers) who ...READ»

The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution

The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution

The same technologies that have allowed for a potential democratic revolution in Iran could emerge just as readily in support of something far more sinister.READ»

Fallujah

Can a Game Be Journalism? Play 'Six Days In Fallujah' to Find Out

Six Days in Fallujah isn't the title of a war correspondent's missives from the frontlines. It's not even a book about the Iraq war. It's a video game due out next year from Konami--albeit one where the ricocheting bullets, ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Time to Take Stock

"We're not only fighting back militarily, but we're also fighting back with our values."READ»

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Fast Talk: 9/11/02

It's one year later. Where were you then? Where are you now? How have you changed?READ»

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Battle Plan

Former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Ralph Peters outlines nine strategies for understanding, fighting, and defeating the new enemy. Rule #1: Culture is king.READ»

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The Coalition has expected verified news of abductions of under-18s from migrant links london and slim internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in attitude to such a stopover. LONDON - Children under 18 days are being abducted from ...READ»

CULTURE   |  7 comments

A Monument to Work?

There's an interesting debate brewing in New York City over the design of the World Trade Center memorial. The original plan calls for the names of the 2,979 victims of the trade center terrorist acts in 1993 and 2001 to be listed ...READ»

Tate Publishing Author Writes Book About Surviving the Khmer Rouge

Tate Publishing author Oni Vitandham’s book On the Wings of a White Horse: A Cambodian Princess’s Story of Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide is a moving and inspirational account of the author’s life, from the jungles of ...READ»

If It Quacks Like a Duck...

In the current issue of New York, Kurt Andersen laments America's age of lame-duckism, "in which the discredited and obsolete and totally over shuffle around in the limelight for years after their sell-by dates." Andersen artfully ...READ»

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Fighting Spirit

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

Continental Courage

Where do you find courage in this country? Not in the southern or western U.S., which overwhelming succumbed to the Bush campaign's fear mongering and Dick Cheney's demented suggestion that a vote for John Kerry is a vote for the ...READ»

CEOs, Your Customers Are in Pain

Can you hear them? Are you close enough to understand what's broken about your customer experience? I've been out and about with your leaders and the frontline, and what they really need is for YOU to get your skin into the game. ...READ»

INDIA   |  Comment

Implications of Mumbai terror attack ...

Some thing is needed to be done soon, else it might get too late!READ»

Lives Defined by Work, Even in Death

There's no more telling example of how people identify themselves--or are identified-- by what they do, than in the current argument over the 9/11 memorial plans for Ground Zero. When the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation ...READ»

Security Check

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Sky Fighter

Daniel Libeskind shares his vision for architecture and why he's at peace with the plans for Ground Zero that replaced his own.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Would You Hire This CEO?

There's been some concern raised by readers of the "Would You Hire This CEO?" Fast Talk in the November issue. Several people have asked why Joel Ronning of Digital River does not include front line employees in his entrepreneurial ...READ»

The Soft Stuff Is the Hard Stuff, and Other Lessons From Iraq

The metaphor that equates war and business is about as wrong as you can get -- unless you know what similarities to look for. For business leaders who are studying the war in Iraq, here are five lessons worth learning.READ»

Ivan Glickman

Covering The Mumbai Attacks: What Can We Learn?

I have a question: Will we learn anything from the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week? I'm not talking about international politics, or security.  I am talking about media -- how do the ways in which we consume and share ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

"Be Prepared To Re-Examine Your Reasoning" - What Robert McNamara Taught Me About Business & Recruiting

In a riveting excerpt from "The Fog of War", the U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, Robert McNamara, offers the following advice: "Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning." I often say ...READ»

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Fast Cities: New York

In the aftermath of September 11, New York police commissioner Ray Kelly built the most successful local counterterrorism unit in the U.S. and perhaps the world. The team, which has 600 experts that know some four dozen languages, routinely dispatches officers overseas for work in cities believed to be terror targets.READ»

Ivan Glickman

Is the Human Resources Department the Union of the 21st Century?

Has the Human Resources Department Become the Union of the 21st Century? Every Labor Day I reminisce about my 24 years as a labor attorney and union official of an 8,000 member national union. It was a great job and I enjoyed ...READ»

Twitter
AL QAEDA   |  2 comments

The Twitter Threat: Tweeting Terrorists?

U.S. Army Intelligence is concerned that terrorists might use the micro-blogging platform Twitter to coordinate attacks, according to a draft report compiled by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion. Oh no -- batten the hatches!READ»