I’ve been trying for years to to adapt the warfare “generations” model to management and I think I finally have the mapping right. The problem is that while both military and business are driven by tech, the business world is also driven by regulatory forces, muddying things
(this explains the millennium war games/van riper episode outcome in 2000... NCW was a Navy idea, and is really 2nd gen warfare, which is why it got pwned by low-tech 3rd generation warfare which at the time was ~55 years old)
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I have to work this out more carefully, the phase-mismatch is not constant. During war in the at;antic (U-boats), navies briefly leaped forward to 3rd gen before backsliding to 2nd with Carrier era.
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A lot of my consulting shtick is basically a result of being simultaneously a lowkey war nerd and a lowkey management history nerd. I’m not as nerdy as full-blown devotees of either side, but I generally grok the historic interplay better than specialists on either side.
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as an enlisted Marine in the early 90s at Camp Lejeune, Van Riper was by far the guy you Dreaded Crossing Paths With
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