He's one of those guys," said Douglas Vlchek, who was called Yoda at DaVita, where he was chief wisdom officer, in charge of employee education.
It is a pool of wisdom, the officers say, that is as deep as any they have ever seen, not about killing the enemy but about evading threats and getting home safely.
American and Iraqi military officers also questioned the wisdom of purchasing tens of millions of dollars of nonmilitary crowd control gear — batons, stun guns and plexiglass shields — usually used by police forces, and $76 million worth of mortar systems, which are too imprecise to use against guerrillas.
Five AMETEK Chairmen and Chief Executive Officers have benefited from his wisdom and counsel during his five decades on its board.
The conventional wisdom among military officers, diplomats and Iraqi officials is that after a new government is formed, talks will begin about a longer-term American troop presence.
No longer will a handful of admissions officers in their self-righteous wisdom be the sole guardians of the gates to the best in education.
Loyal soldiers, they did not criticize their senior officers, nor did they question the wisdom of the war itself.
Bonaparte's most immediate concern however was with his own officers, who began to question the wisdom of the entire expedition.
Some findings reinforced the conventional wisdom, said Elissa Moses, chief analytics officer at EmSense in Westport, Conn., which works for clients like Virgin Mobile USA and Coca-Cola.
He learned from "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," by the British Army officer T. E. Lawrence Lawrencee of Arabia), and "Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice," by David Galula, both dated texts that had uncanny relevance to the Vietnam War and the post-Vietnam era.
