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Since the end of the Cold War, the United States Army has been reengineered and downsized more thoroughly than any other business. In the early 1990s, General Sullivan, army chief of staff, and Colonel Harper, his key strategic planner, took the post-Cold War army into the Information Age. Faced with…

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Put simply, it summarises the former four and has gifted me “So What?” When ‘Command and Control’ was recognised as an obsolete model for a modern army, the two authors had the task of rethinking what that would mean and how to accomplish something better.

When leading an organisation whose budget has been slashed, but you cannot lose the capacity to effectively respond, it focuses the mind. As the authors say, we must change the way we change.

There is a clue in the title. The recipe is clear and is anything but a dry narrative. It shows how…

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