"Only by understanding the strategy paradox's root cause", he says, "can we build strategies that succeed deliberately, rather than only when fortune smiles upon us".Much of the discussion about strategy today revolves around an age-old dilemma (yes indeed, for such it is) between firmness and flexibility.
Much of the existing literature on the progressive's dilemma does indeed suffer from this sort of methodological nationalism, and thereby implicitly and uncritically "mirrors and legitimizes nation-building projects" (Sager, 2014).
Increasing one's awareness and sensitivity to ethical concepts, criteria and dilemmas can indeed be addressed in training, seminars and debate format, as colleges and secondary schools are finally discovering.
As the words exchanged by America and Iran, Mr Maliki's two key international backers, get angrier, the prime minister and his government face a dilemma.Indeed, says a European diplomat, a "perfect storm" could brew up, with Iraq's already blighted political landscape being further ruined by battles fought by outsiders.
For the conspiracy theorists, such a dilemma is sweet vindication indeed.
In this dilemma, our safest, and indeed our only course, seems to be to say something at all risks: placed as we are, we could scarcely be silent without being tormented by the damning thought that speaking might have saved us.
This therefore is the dilemma of Science and indeed of all human knowledge, that in carrying out the process which is peculiar to it, it necessarily leaves the dry ground of reality for the watery region of abstractions, which abstractions become ever more tenuous and ungraspable the farther it goes, and ultimately fade into mere ghosts.
Indeed, this dilemma applies not only to the news companies choose to put out over the wires but also to their internal corporate communications as well.
