\u201cWatching today’s generals discuss how to improve leadership development is a little like watching dinosaurs discuss how to evolve,\u201d complains veteran Washington Post<\/em> and WSJ military correspondent Thomas Ricks, in this withering commentary in Foreign Policy<\/a>. Essentially, he says, the report boils down to \u201c”Everybody turn left and be creative.” With no suggestions as to how, exactly.<\/p>\n Ricks himself has an answer, though. \u201cIn a peacetime force, which is what the Army is about to become, you preserve your seed corn by emphasizing professional military education.\u201d Real education, that is, with high standards, good teachers, tough grades, and at least a 10% failure rate. \u201cNot the slacker sort-of sabbatical that it has become in many places. (I’m looking at you, Air War College.)\u201d he warns. \u201cOne reason our senior leaders were better in World War II than in World War I,\u201d he argues, \u201cwas that during the interwar period, the military education system was rigorous and respected.\u201d By switching its focus from training to truly strenuous education, the Army might have a chance of developing officers capable of creative thinking.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n SCORE ONE FOR THE EARLY BIRDS<\/a><\/p>\n \n When Wharton\u2019s Uri Simonsohn and HBS\u2019s Francesca Gino examined MBA admissions data (from neither Wharton nor Harvard), they found that candidates interviewed last consistently got lower scores. Why? They suggest that interviewers are unconsciously applying a daily quota, rather than comparing each candidate to the entire pool. That is, say they knew that only 50% of applicants could be accepted. If by the end of the day they\u2019d already given more than half the people a high rating, they unconsciously gave the last unfortunate soul a lower score to avoid adding another person to the pot. This dynamic can play out anytime people spread decisions out over multiple days, Simonsohn warns, such as when considering bank loan applications or interviewing job candidates\n <\/p>\n \n EVERYONE\u2019S A LABEL SNOB<\/a><\/p>\n \n In a clever experiment, BCG researchers asked consumers about their willingness to pay a premium for products like baby food, cell phones, and furniture that they thought were made in the U.S. over similar (in reality, the exact same) products thought to be made in China. Fully two-thirds of U.S. respondents were willing to pay more for the made-in-the-USA-label for every product in every category. More surprising perhaps is that over 60% of Chinese consumers likewise said they\u2019d pay more for the presumably U.S.-made products. And nearly half said they\u2019d buy American even when they thought the price — and the quality — of the China-made version was exactly the same.\n <\/p>\n \n BONUS BITS:<\/a><\/p>\n \n The Jobs with the Biggest and Smallest Pay Gaps Between Men and Women (Planet Money)<\/a><\/p>\n Does the Language You Speak Affect How Much You Save? (Marketplace)<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n \u201cWatching today’s generals discuss how to improve leadership development is a little like watching dinosaurs discuss how to evolve,\u201d complains veteran Washington Post and WSJ military correspondent Thomas Ricks, in this withering commentary in Foreign Policy. Essentially, he says, the report boils down to \u201c”Everybody turn left and be creative.” With no suggestions as to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why You Don\u2019t Want To Be the Last Interview of the Day (Knowledge @ Wharton) <\/a><\/h4>\n
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