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Moneyball and US State Department
ChinaTalk
Foreign Policy Decision Makers Are Great Writers and Excellent Briefers
Foreign policy decision makers tend to be excellent writers and excellent briefers. You can be a great writer and have no idea you're talking about a cable, but the cables that get passed around are the ones that have very interesting, kind of, like, real, you know, grease and leg work into them. The politics that you describe are just perennial problems in human decision making. Government should look to paragons of rationality in the business community for inspiration.
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