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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

lunarchick - 07:00pm Mar 19, 2001 EST (#1192 of 1194)
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Looking through recent posts (above) i noted the link to 'learning to stand' included this:

CP Snow spoke of "... the prime importance, in any crisis of action, of being positive what you want to do, and being able to explain it. It is not so relevant whether you are right or wrong. That is a second -order effect. But it is cardinal that you should be positive."

I also noted the query re the Invidual/behaviour within organisations. There is a lot of literature on this, it sits in HRM (human resource management).

Linking the 'positive' with 'individual behaviour' spells LEADERSHIP.

That there be leaders within organisations is important, and that they have direction is also vital. That the Organisation and the direction be in sync is vital.

The Organisation has to respond to the External (and internal) environment, look at trends and directions and future opportunities, and at the same time 'know' what is happening amongst it's competitors.

That head frequently roll in board rooms and the average lifespan of a CEO is Three and a half years reflects the syncronisation of an individual with the 'direction' of an organisation. The organisation as an animal is camelion and constantly reflecting and fitting to new environments. Those within the organisation have to continually re-adjust to the new environment.

Redundancy is redundancy of minds ... that no longer fit the new environment.

On the world environment there is a need for those in leadership roles to be aware of the 'real environment' ... an environment under threat from the misfires of missiles. That non can see the environment suggests the redundant (old Knowledge) in their heads needs upgrading, or leadership refreshment - a new person - a new page.

So the communications problem, or models, suited to MD have to reach into the minds of people and refresh those minds. A hard task when people avert their mental gaze.

lunarchick - 07:09pm Mar 19, 2001 EST (#1193 of 1194)
lunarchick@www.com

Greed makes people take note.

Interesting that the Minister of Defence in India was caught 'taking a bribe' and it is up on www live action replay ...

And yet the Western Press HAVE NOT covered this story .... WHY NOT?

If greed make people 'look' then a question re MD is how to get ordinary folk to 'look' via greed. Or is it that they only see the $$$$'s and don't look at the morality of the issues.

The latest Island Continent Election saw voters of both left and right voting for the GREEN party ..(here preference votes flow through). The Green party must be 1/4 century old by now, and just gets a senator or two elected to Parliament. That votes are increasing towards green reflects people realising that the environment is the 'mother' or 'father' and that we the people are 'the children' who have a responsibility towards the 'mother-father' and should respect it.

Primitive peoples know instinctively to respect the earth -- the hand that feeds.

So how is it that 'modern' people ... don't see the link back to the wider environment. Is this because they live life via the supermarket using paper money as a medium of exchange ? The communication question is 'How to make people realise that the Environment is that in/on which we live and rely' !

rshowalter - 07:38pm Mar 19, 2001 EST (#1194 of 1194)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

C.P. Snow spoke of

" ... the prime importance, in any crisis of action, of being positive what you want to do, and being able to explain it. It is not so relevant whether you are right or wrong. That is a second -order effect. But it is cardinal that you should be positive."

in Science and Government a book very much worth study today. We need to check things, and take care, so that we are right- and have a right to be positive.

What I want most to see done is set out in #266-269 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:32am This, or something along similar lines, doesn't seem so hard to explain. But it WOULD require getting past some conceptual barriers. And it WOULD require all concerned to think about their military expenditures, and make them conform to sane needs.

To get the facts straight, the pattern in 956 rshowalter 3/12/01 2:17pm ought to work. Human questions, such as those set out in #960 rshowalter 3/12/01 2:47pm could be answered, in ways that would let us learn enough about each other, as real people, so we could figure out HOW to live in peace.

The increase on comfort and wealth for the whole world (perhaps most for Russia, but also for the United States) could be enormous. And life could go on.

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