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...standard in two critical ways. First, it was driven by the CEO himself. CI professionals agree that intelligence is only as good as the executives who use it. Unless the CEO understands the importance of intelligence as well as its limitations, the best efforts of an analyst will be worthless. Second, Herring focused on developing internal sources of information: Motorola employees who could accumulate critical data about competitors or the marketplace in the course of their everyday jobs. Herring taught key employees around the world how to casually elicit useful information from unwitting sources and then encouraged them to pass...
...last spring, there were signs that the administration was beginning to head in this direction. Former President Neil L. Rudenstine created a committee with student, worker, and faculty representation to reevaluate university labor policy. This process, however limited, resulted in far more progress than was ever achieved by the worthless meetings between the Living Wage Campaign and various administrators...
Precision munitions are worse than worthless if their targets are selected by dishonest men. Western diplomats and Afghan intelligence sources in Kabul say that until recently the special forces in eastern and southern Afghanistan have relied on untrustworthy informants who tricked the U.S. into sending in lethal air strikes on their tribal enemies. Both the Kabul-bound convoy and the Qila-Niazi wedding party, for example, were targeted by Pacha Khan, a former provincial governor, derided by one official as a "Pentagon-created warlord," who was using American munitions to take care of his own business, according to Afghan government...
...Miller is right, that doesn't mean the ID movement is worthless. It means ID adherents have raised productive doubts--and in science, being productively wrong is nearly as valuable as being right...
...treatment of symptoms of glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, AIDS and migraines, all with moderate short term side-effects and no long term ones. The drug has no potential for overdose and no risk of physical dependence. Now imagine that the United States government deemed this substance to be medically worthless, classified it with the most dangerous and addictive narcotics and, along with state and local governments, proceeded to spend over $30 billion a year attempting to eradicate...