[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_single_image media=”73044″ media_width_percent=”100″][vc_column_text text_lead=”yes”]I remember one of my first classes at Oxford. I sat enthralled while Professor Boulton (Embracing Complexity) lectured us on the abiding concepts of complex adaptive systems (CAS). As a former USN SEAL and budding molecular biologist (at least in my youth), I knew a bit about complexity, at least enough…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_single_image media=”73042″ media_width_percent=”100″][vc_column_text text_lead=”yes”]You’ve heard this before, I’m sure: “Changing culture is the hardest thing you’ll ever do.” Aside from the fact that such a statement is debatable, it does beg the question: What even is “culture”? How do we define it? Do we accept the biologist’s definition, the sociologist’s, or the anthropologist’s? Take…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_single_image media=”73043″ media_width_percent=”100″][vc_column_text text_lead=”yes”]As a US Navy SEAL, it took me almost 15 years of studying small-unit tactics to understand that the thousands of pages of text and centuries of best practices and lessons learned, from the Greeks to the Romans to Napoleon, Clausewitz and Jomini, and in the East from Khan to the…