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...COMMAND AND CONTROL BROKE DOWN...
...such social networks. When networks organize themselves, they can drain coordination, learning and performance. The solution, according to The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations, is to make the network visible. By studying workers' interactions and not just the official chain of command, managers can spot such problems as "bottlenecks" (in which one worker is overwhelmingly depended on by many people), "peripheral people" (who aren't tapped often enough and tend to be much less satisfied in their jobs) and "disconnects" (which can be caused by something as simple as a group being...
Lieutenant General David Petraeus has just returned to his office in Baghdad's Republican Palace from visiting a close friend - a tribal sheikh he had come to know well during his 10-month command of the 101st Airborne Division in the northern city of Mosul. As is often the case, Petraeus is one lucky man: His friend, Sheikh Ghazi Yawar, was appointed as Iraq's new president three weeks ago. And Yawar's most critical priority is the one Petraeus is now charged with overseeing: getting Iraq's military and police forces up and running. "It was wonderful...
...Petraeus will need all the friends he can garner once Iraq's sovereignty is transferred to Yawar's government on July 1. Barely three months after Petraeus returned home to Cornwall, N.Y. after a year's command in Iraq, President Bush sent the general back to Baghdad in late April to help salvage a mission that was turning into a mounting political disaster for Washington. Petraeus's brief visit had been billed as an "assessment" of the Iraqi forces. But its mission was far more serious. Weeks of all-out armed revolt in Fallujah and the Shiite southern cities...
These breezy B's, terrestrial siblings to the Buck Rogers serials, might not have been film literature, but they were the equivalent of expert speed typing. In them Reagan proved himself engaging, snappy, in command. When he figured no one was looking, he could be well worth watching...