A strategy for trade unions and arts and culture could not be far away, artists, trade unionists and relevant organisations met yesterday to discuss an art and culture strategy for the TUC, all agreeing that this is an important area of trade union work. The trade unions have always had a long...
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Tigmoo on 29th May 2009 (via strongerunions.org)
IT trade association Intellect, in partnership with other major trade associations from across Europe, has submitted nine recommendations towards a European software strategy to EU Information Commissioner, Viviane Reding.
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PublicTechnology on 17th Nov 2008 (via publictechnology.net)
12/02/2009 PUBLIC EVENT: Work-Life Balance, Greening Work and the Role of Trade Unions Jean Lambert MEP GREEN PARTY TRADE UNION GROUP & London Federation of Green Parties PUBLIC MEETING: ALL WELCOME Work-Life Balance, Greening Work and the Role of Trade Unions The world in plunging headlong into recession, but could these difficult times provide the opportunity for a 'New Green Deal'...
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AnotherGreenWorld on 16th Feb 2009 (via another-green-world.blogspot.com)
I believe it may be time for the Navy to scrap "A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower", or at least begin a thorough, publicly announced review of the assumptions and conclusions it reaches. This may sound odd coming from the worker-bee most closely associated with that strategy's development and defense (and from the guy with the most to lose if the strategy is cast aside--I mean-...
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InformationDissemination on 4th Dec 2009 (via informationdissemination.net)
Technology trade association Intellect has welcomed the publication of HM Governments revised Counter Terrorism strategy, known as CONTEST 2.
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PublicTechnology on 27th Mar 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
As other commentators have noted, Anthony Cordesman of CSIS gave a speech to the National Defense University on 10 March which contained some blistering assessments of the DoD's approach to strategy and budget. As I work on the next installment of my strategy posts, I found the following passage extremely resonant: This brings me to the last of my three principles: Any meaningful strategy mus...
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InformationDissemination on 20th Mar 2009 (via informationdissemination.blogspot.com)
Check out Dr. Barry R. Posen's presentation on Grand Strategy as part of the Rethinking the Foundations of the National Security Strategy and the QDR Seminar Series. There are several presentations that are pretty good viewing.
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InformationDissemination on 22nd Sep 2009 (via informationdissemination.net)
The government's strategy to prevent violent extremism has alienated Muslims it wants to work with, MPs warn.
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BBCPolitics on 30th Mar 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
12/02/2009 PUBLIC EVENT: Work-Life Balance, Greening Work and the Role of Trade Unions GREEN PARTY TRADE UNION GROUP & London Federation of Green Parties PUBLIC MEETING: ALL WELCOME Work-Life Balance, Greening Work and the Role of Trade Unions The world in plunging headlong into recession, but could these difficult times provide the opportunity for a ‘New Green
Thoughts on Grand Strategy Fareed Zakaria offers a plea for a new Grand Strategy from the Obama team but isn't very concrete about what it should look like. He also says that 'in order to form a grand strategy you need to know what the world actually looks like' which is *sort* of true, but I argue is looking at things in the wrong order. As a first step in the exercise, you need to...
Sun Tzu wrote that, ‘strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.’ Obama and his campaign internalised this maxim. They combined a political strategy that focussed on a singular narrative and open organisational structure with modern tools to maximise fundraising and voter mobilisation. The critical difference
