Opposed Systems Design

insightful strategic choices refer to devising courses of action likely to achieve one’s ultimate goals despite resource constraints, political considerations, bureaucratic resistance, the adversary’s opposing efforts, and the intractable un-certainties as to how a chosen strategy may ultimately work out.

It is a powerhouse article that makes connections to cognitive science and psychology. Apparently he’s working on a longer study about this at CSBA; I can’t wait to see it. We need to think big about how we’re going to tackle this meta-problem (thinking about how to identify the right thinkers).