Leveraging Critical Friction-Points

Abstract

The task was to identify ways to encourage constructive competition and creative cooperation to increase capacity for effective action. The issue is an endemic culture of consensus pervades the Department of Defense, hindering innovation and stifling creativity rather than facilitating a "crucible of ideas." The importance of this is in the current fiscally constrained environment, the next SECDEF will be required to make tough strategic decisions. A culture of creative tension can increase innovative risk-taking and out-of-the-box ideas. The culture of compromise and the involvement of (too) many, results in little accountability or motivation for individuals to excel and few if any sanctions against bad decisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 23, 2008
Accession Number
ADA525376

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Business Board

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accountability
  • Air Force
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Commerce
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environment
  • Friction
  • Health Care
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Operations
  • Management Personnel
  • Motivation
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Weapon Systems

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  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design