SUNDAY 'S RECOMMENDED READINGHere we go....
John Hagel at
Edge Perspectives has pride of place for his post "
Zero Sum Thinking"
Hagel is one of those extremely smart bloggers whom I wish posted more often. Understanding the implications of zero sum and nonzero sum dynamics is a critical one and it simply isn't all that common due to the often counterintuitive nature of nonzero sum thinking.
Rebecca MacKinnon at
RConversation on the disturbingly cutesy, quasi-Pikachu, internet censorship initiative of the Chinese government in "
China's Big Bro and Sis now have names and faces".
It as if the Gestapo had access to Japanimation ( Hat Tip:
Mountain Runner).
Collounsbury posting at
'Aqoul on "
US Diplo Service: Out into the Field She Says"
Col, who is not known for lavishing praise on Bush administration officials, is pleased with the reforms initiated by Rice ( as am I). Like the military, the foreign service needs a major overhaul of its personnel and promotion policies that have only been tinkered with ad hoc over the last century.
The Drs. Eide at
The Eide Neurolearning Blog on "
Aha! How We Learn Something New"
I often discuss horizontal thinking and have speculated that it plays the role of a catalyst in stimulating insight. Here the Eides discuss research demonstrating bilateral brain processing old old and new data - " novelty-seeking with a purpose" as a driver of innovation.
Simon of
Simon World draws our attention to
three Jamestown reports on China.
That's it.