This operational style - consensus driven, government supported and rife with cronyism - benefited Japan in the years after World War II.
Would we be more "naturally" confident, in our operational style and in our power, were the world run by women?
But what complicated this seamless operational style for achieving very little was the relationship between the prime minister and his chancellor, the marriage from hell that parented New Labour.
In contrast to some of the skepticism expressed by military experts outside China, Li Jie, a researcher at the Chinese Naval Research Institute, said in an interview in the state-run People's Daily that the carrier would change the Chinese Navy's traditional mind-set and bring qualitative changes to its operational style and structure, he said.
Van der Velden, who tends toward the latter view, explained that Metahaven's research approach was to break down WikiLeaks into elements that its visual identity should reflect: its unusual transnational structure; its links to technology; the role of outsiders in contemporary information culture; the tension between its pro-transparency mission and essentially opaque operational style.
Knight Vinke, a Monaco-based hedge fund that specialises in large cap companies, has written a white paper on how E.On should be reshaped, while Cevian Capital has stakes in Bilfinger and ThyssenKrupp, where it is practising its traditional long-term, operational style of activism.
Airbnb's measured tones and careful approach to working with policymakers invites a contrasting comparison with ride sharing firm Uber's brash operational style.
It's certainly true that the hangover from Uber's legacy operational style of brash expansionism and thumbing its nose at regulators continues to cause the company problems in Europe.
"To a great extent, it serves our broader mission, but push it too far, and it can compromise that mission". Contrary to popular belief, he says, the growing interest among faculty members in commercializing their discoveries does not constitute a basic change in their operational style.
