Institutional Culture and Adaptation After a Decade of War by Peter Munson, Defense Entrepreneurs Forum.
A great deal of emphasis has been placed on learning lessons over the course of the past decade. There are a number of questions to consider. How do we learn lessons? What are the right lessons to draw from our recent experiences? What are the right lessons to focus on as we look forward and try to anticipate future challenges?
Most discussions center on what lessons should have already been learned from previous conflicts, how the lessons identified in the past were not implemented, and how we must now learn the lessons once and for all. We identify lessons and call them “learned,” without considering how an organization goes about truly learning lessons...