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Capturing the Potential of Outlier Ideas in the Intelligence Community (2011) [pdf]
- paulmd 12y agoIt's impressive how many words and charts a government agency needs to use to say "listen to the dreamers once in a while". Frankly not a very self-critical piece. It's pretty obvious why a lot of ideas get squashed - the CIA is at the core a political organization like any other, there's things that the leaders want to hear and things they don't. You don't need a big chart and buzzwords ("hedgehog/groundhog/brown fox/red fox"), you need institutional reform and de-politicization.
- dropit_sphere 12y agoIs that possible? I'm not certain that it's even possible to have a large organization that doesn't run on politics.