Politics of a Covert Action
Instructor: Phil Heyamn
Key Take Aways...
- Time. Make time for yourself to work on important issues. This is done too seldom.
Policy Development IV
Clinton Health care Proposal
Instructor: Roger Porter.
Key Take Aways....
- Factoids. We started the session talking about using "factoids" to kick off meetings. Here are a few ones we discussed.
- Jimmy Carter was the first US President to be born in a hospital. Today, 99% of babies are born in a hospital.
- CIA folks state the best fact to have if you want to understand the stability of a country is infant mortality rate. When infant mortality rate goes up, so does political instability.
- In 1915, 99 babies died in first year of their life vs. in 2010, 6.4 babies die per 1,000 live births.
- Issues. Three types of issues. (1) Mandate. Something you must take on. (2) Maturing. Something that is becoming more important as time passes. (3) Crisis. Failure to act now ill result in a deteriorating situation. You need to work on 1 and 3...but 2 is your choice. Understand what type of issue that you are addressing.
- Anticipate, Anticipate, Anticipate. Roger's tip for leaders!
General PetraeusThe Accidental Statesman: General Petraeus.
In 2003, Petraeus lead the rebuilding of Iraq after Gulf War in the City of Mosul, Iraq. He had three goals: Provide a secure environment, restore basic life services, and facilitate a return to normalcy. He stressed the guiding principle of "Don't conduct an operation unless it will take more bad guys off the streets than it creates." Interesting fact: Barbara in our class has been part of General Petraeus' staff. She has the utmost respect for him and loves working for him.
BBQ in Courtyard
Red Sox vs. Indians Baseball....Red Sox won!
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