On the October 9 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, in part two of his "exclusive interview" with Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, co-host Sean Hannity falsely asserted that Sen. Barack Obama "said, very specifically, that he would cut tens of billions of dollars in defense spending," and invited McCain to criticize Obama for proposing to "slow the development of Future Combat Systems" without noting that the McCain campaign itself has said that the program "should be ended."

During the interview, Hannity claimed that Obama "said, very specifically, that he would cut tens of billions of dollars in defense spending, cut investments in missile defense, and slow the development of Future Combat Systems." Hannity then asked McCain, "This is your area of expertise, senator. Why would that not be a good plan?" McCain responded: "Well, again, I think that Senator Obama has had no experience with either national security nor the specifics of how we can best defend this nation and secure a better future for our children and grandchildren. And that, of course, means how we equip and how we train, and how we have an overall strategy. I don't think Senator Obama knows much about our defense system, simply because he's never had any background on it."

However, while inviting McCain to explain why Obama's proposal to "slow" the development of Future Combat Systems is not "a good plan," Hannity did not note that McCain's own July budget plan reportedly stated that the program "should be ended." As Wired blogger Noah Shachtman noted, Future Combat Systems is a specific Army program that the McCain campaign addressed in a budget plan that McCain senior economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin provided to The Washington Post editorial board, which the Post published on July 14:

Balance the budget requires slowing outlay growth to 2.4 percent. The roughly $470 billion dollars (by 2013) in slower spending growth come from reduced deployments abroad ($150 billion; consistent with success in Iraq/Afghanistan that permits deployments to be cut by half -- hopefully more), slower discretionary spending in non-defense and Pentagon procurements ($160 billion; there are lots of procurements -- airborne laser, Globemaster, Future Combat System -- that should be ended and the entire Pentagon budget should be scrubbed) and reductions in mandatory spending ($160 billion) from a mix of excessive agricultural and ethanol subsidies, slower health care cost growth, Medicaid savings from the expansion of private insurance, and other reforms.

Nor did Hannity ask McCain whether he no longer believes the Future Combat Systems program "should be ended," given that he recently criticized Obama for stating that the development of Future Combat Systems should be "slow[ed]." A September 15 Army Times article cited "wire reports" in reporting that, after telling a crowd in Missouri that Obama has proposed to "slow our development" of the program, McCain said "This is not a time to slow our development of Future Combat Systems." The Army Times then noted McCain's apparent reversal of position:

Has Sen. John McCain renounced his longtime antagonism toward the Army's Future Combat Systems?

On Sept. 8, the Republican presidential candidate told a rally crowd in Lee's Summit, Mo., about an Obama video message to a liberal advocacy group.

"He promised them he would, quote, 'slow our development of Future Combat Systems,'" McCain said, according to wire reports. "This is not a time to slow our development of Future Combat Systems."

Flashback to July, however, when his campaign furnished McCain's economic plan to The Washington Post, declaring that "there are lots of procurements -- Airborne Laser, [C-17] Globemaster, Future Combat System [sic] -- that should be ended and the entire Pentagon budget should be scrubbed."

In fact, McCain has long criticized the over-budget, behind-schedule FCS program. In 2005, he blasted the Army for allowing the program to balloon to $161 billion, and forced the service to rewrite the main FCS contract.

So where does McCain really stand? Some bloggers and analysts have suggested that he used the term "future combat systems" generically. Obama's campaign maintains their candidate was speaking specifically about FCS, in which case McCain may be twisting his rival's words.

Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute called it deceitful.

"McCain's interpretation of Obama's position is typical of the way in which the Republicans have twisted Democratic views in order to undercut their opponents and at the same time obscure the past positions of the Republicans," Thompson said. "Future Combat Systems is the centerpiece of Army modernization. However, McCain has been more critical of it than anyone else in the chamber. Obama has been much more detailed and thoughtful in his comments about future military investment than McCain's very superficial statements."

Officials with the McCain campaign did not return phone calls and emails requesting clarification.

The New Republic's Jonathan Chait also noted McCain's apparent inconsistency on Future Combat Systems in an October 8 article.

Additionally, Hannity's claim that Obama "said, very specifically, that he would cut tens of billions of dollars in defense spending" is false. As Media Matters for America noted when Hannity previously asserted that Obama "could cut military spending, billions of dollars," Obama told the group Caucus4Priorities that he would cut "tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending," not overall defense spending.

From the October 9 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:

COLMES: Welcome to Hannity & Colmes. Getting right to our top story tonight, and it is more of Sean's exclusive interview with Senator McCain and Governor Palin. Take a look.

[begin video clip]

HANNITY: Let me go back to the issue of Barack Obama and national defense. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela are tiny countries and not a serious threat. And he also said, very specifically, that he would cut tens of billions of dollars in defense spending, cut investments in missile defense, and slow the development of Future Combat Systems. This is your area of expertise, senator. Why would that not be a good plan?

McCAIN: Well, again, I think that Senator Obama has had no experience with either national security nor the specifics of how we can best defend this nation and secure a better future for our children and grandchildren. And that, of course, means how we equip and how we train, and how we have an overall strategy.

I don't think Senator Obama knows much about our defense system, simply because he's never had any background on it. But more importantly, when he does not support the mission that General Petraeus outlined and that has succeeded -- and fails, absolute fails, to recognize that he was wrong when he opposed the surge -- said it wouldn't work, it would lead to increase in ethnic violence, et cetera, et cetera.

So, you have to start from an overall strategy and then equip the military with the tools necessary to implement that strategy. He does not understand the strategy, either there or in Afghanistan.

And to sit down with those three dictators you talked about, the Castro brothers, Hugo Chavez, or Ahmadinejad, without preconditions, obviously, is incredibly naive approach to these challenges.

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• The Content Economy: The digital company 2013 - key points

  # The “millennials” will expect to use technology at work as freely as they do in their personal lives. They will also be ready to collaborate.
  # Senior management will have a clearer understanding of IT capabilities than is the case today.
  # Social networks will be a ï¬xture in the 2013 workplace, despite executives’ ambivalence on their role.
  # The use of collaborative technologies will help cut through geographical and organisational barriers, and will give wings to virtual team-working.
  # Digital tools will give employees greater control over the information they can access, which means less control for managers.

  tags: prospective, business, organization, management, IT, socialnetworks, collaboration, information, control, teamwork, telecommuting

• The Email Problem and How To Solve It — Blogiculum Vitae

  I want to talk to you about email, the psychology of email

  It is a vital part of business, we all depend on it and we don’t even think about how we use it despite the fact that it’s really very new - only had it in business for the last 10 years or so. As email spreads it tendrils and becomes more and more common - it’s ubiquitous now, there was a time when you had to make a business case for email, now its the first thing you get. And it’s starting to become a problem.

  tags: email, informationoverload, socialsoftware

• Entreprise 2.0 + Télétravail 2.0 = Entreprise 3.0 - TeCoMan : La collaboration electronique au service de l’agilite des organisations.

  Il n’y a que 7,4% de télétravailleurs en France (contre 15% en moyenne en Europe du Nord [5] et 25% aux USA [6]), dont 5,4% en nomade et 2% à domicile [7], malgré l’implication des partenaires sociaux pour augmenter leur nombre.

  Pourtant, les entreprises qui l’ont expérimenté énumèrent tous les avantages associés :
  - Amélioration de la qualité de vie des salariés (selon les étude, 46% [8] à 60 % [9] des salariés en rêvent),
  - Economies réalisées pour les collaborateurs (à minima sur les transports) et pour les entreprises (par exemple sur les surfaces de bureaux nécessaires),
  - Productivité augmentée de 20% [10],
  - Plus de motivation et moins de stress,
  - Compétitivité accrue via une augmentation de la flexibilité,
  - Attractivité renforcée de l’entreprise, voire sauvegarde de l’emploi,
  - Allègement des charges fixes, réduction de la pollution,

  tags: telecommuting, homeoffice, productivity, motivation, management

• Les KPI ne sont pas la priorité

  Le plus important, c’est de savoir ce que vous voulez faire et comment vous allez le faire. Le moyen choisi pour mesurer ne vient qu’ensuite. “

  tags: performance, indicators, KPI, goals, measurement

  • A force de marteler des slogans du type “On ne pilote que ce que l’on mesure”, on mesure un peu tout et n’importe quoi. Au final on ne sait plus trop ce que l’on pilote, ni même si on pilote. Je me demande s’il ne faudrait pas, durant un temps en tout cas, inverser la formule afin de se recentrer sur l’essentiel. “ On ne mesure que ce que l’on pilote”.

• Importance of Human Resources: Talent Intelligence During the Onboarding Process

  Talent Intelligence Onboarding Areas

  The following is a short list of areas for which managers interested in performance should take responsibility and for which they should make use of intelligence that is gained:

  tags: onboarding, recruitment, newjoiners, management, humanresources, talentmanagement

  • Accelerating time to productivity
  • Continuous recruiting
  • Competitive intelligence.
  • Setting a manager’s expectations
  • Understanding the employee’s expectations

• Crowdsourcing? Try expert sourcing | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

  In other words, crowd sourcing can get you the idea, but it can only go so far. Companies need to think about rallying experts to actually execute on various concepts

  tags: innovation, crowdsourcing, expertis, experts

• CIO Magazine interview: Six key points for CIOs in creating value from Enterprise 2.0 - Trends in the Living Networks

  tags: no_tag

  • Dawson says it’s important for CIOs trying to come to terms with Enterprise 2.0 to realize it is less about a collection of new technologies and much more about shifting organizations into the next phase of work.
  • That means the organization needs an architectural view in terms of how these essentially participatory bits of technologies are to be aggregated into things that will be of value to the organization.

• The Real Sin of Email « IT Organization Circa 2017

  , Email has become a de facto work flow solution - a function for which is is horribly unsuitable. This has happened due to the old “if the hammer is your only tool, every problem looks like a nail.”

  tags: email, workflow

• Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home. | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

  Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association.

  tags: homeoffice, telecommuting, health, productivity, organization, management, humanressources

  • 67 percent of the companies polled said employees were more productive, largely because they spent less time getting to and from work.
  • 59 percent reported seeing cost savings from reduced use of office-related materials and resources.
  • 39 percent said they have access to a more qualified staff, expanding their options to people who are located in - and not willing to relocate from - other regions. Likewise, 37 percent said telecommuting improved employee retention.
  • 25 percent said employee health was improved, largely by reducing stress levels associated with the commute.
  • Other benefits included promotion of safety through reduced highway use (18 percent) and environmental benefits (17 percent)

Une étude du Butler Group qui rappelle les fondamentaux | Cluster21 : la communauté du digital, des médias à la e-démocratie…

Il faudra bien se pencher alors sérieusement sur la productivité personnelle, un élément que l’information overload et la nécessité de transformer l’information utile en quelquechose d’”actionnable” rend de plus en plus critique. Son optimisation devrait être depuis longtemps une préoccupation des organisations car elle peut devenir un important levier de performance. Il est rare que les cabinets d’étude type Butler le soulignent et c’est donc d’autant plus significatif.

tags: butlergroup, enterprise2.0, productivity, IT, management

Is Innovation Everyone’s Job? | The Relationship Economy……

Today innovation is the buzzword du jour, but there’s still a yawning chasm between rhetoric and reality. If you doubt this, seek out a few entry-level employees and ask them the following questions:

1. How have you been equipped to be a business innovator? What training have you received? What tools have you been supplied with?

2. Do you have access to an innovation coach or mentor? Is there an innovation expert in your unit who will help you develop your breakout idea?

3. How easy is it for you to get access to experimental funding? How long would it take you to get a few thousand dollars in seed money? How many levels of bureaucracy would you have to go through?

4. Is innovation a formal part of your job description? Does your compensation depend in part on your innovation performance?

5. Do your company’s management processes—budgeting, planning, staffing, etc.—support your work as an innovator or hinder it?

tags: innovation, management, organization

It’s Time to Invert the Management Pyramid - Vineet Nayar

It is not a stationary relic I’m talking about. I’m talking about the brand new dinosaur on the block - the classical management pyramid. Time has come to dismantle it and adapt to a new evolutionary and unstructured model that leverages the team effect to ensure that companies can lead change rather play catch up or be left behind.

tags: management, organization, control, pyramid, intellectualcapital

• The Industrial Revolution brought along with it the problem of management and the Wars brought with them the solution. In every war there was the General, the man who controlled and commanded. He had ‘managers’ who reported to him; these managers in turn had several ‘assistant managers’ who reported to them, and the whole configuration went on to make the traditional organizational structure, or the Management Pyramid
• Back then, things were rather simple: Manufacturing was the buzzword, selling was not a very complicated process, folks were simple, families were joint, and ‘top-down’ management worked very well.
• And this old management model certainly does not create a conducive environment for teams of employees to thrive in.
• Change, then, is the order of the day. And, when change sets in, this pyramid will get deconstructed. The ‘Me’ command will turn into the ‘We’ control.

• .

  
  Yes, the traditional pyramid management structure needs some unstructuring. Flexibility is the key to survival in the 21st century, and organizational structure is no exception. It needs to be open to change, to take any shape that’s best suited to the organization.

• t is the employees together who form the intellectual capital and, hence, need to be recognized as the most valuable resource for any organization
• Business models have to change. In a football game, there are 22 players but only one has the ball at any particular time. The other 21 are forming a configuration. The open-ended structure we are in is not about the man with the ball, but about the configuration of the other 21 people.

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John McCain rally, October 9, 2008

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On the October 7 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, G. Gordon Liddy discussed the detention of author Jerome Corsi in Kenya and aired a sketch in which he said: "We've used the satellite connection to Kenya, and we are now focusing in on the trial of Dr. Jerome Corsi. ... [H]e's being accused of impersonating a human being. My Zulu's not -- not as good as Obama's, but -- yeah, they're really upset with him. You can probably tell." Liddy then aired a clip apparently from the 1950 movie King Solomon's Mines, which featured characters speaking in Kinyarwanda (not Zulu), one of the official languages of Rwanda, and playing music on drums. Liddy continued: "This is it. This is the -- I think the entire Obama family is getting set to do something terrible to Dr. Corsi. I must say that Dr. Corsi appears to be bearing up with great courage. He's a man. Dr. Corsi will show 'em how to die. Yes, indeed." Liddy went on to say, "That is the -- says it -- the message is going out from Kenya to our brother in America, if I'm understanding the jungle telegraph drums correctly. 'O great brother, born in Kenya, smuggled into Hawaii.' Oh, my. This does not look good for Jerry Corsi. Yes, I think they're going to burn his book now. Matter of fact, they seem to have -- yeah, they've piled up a lot of -- a lot of his books, and there's a big stake in the middle of the pile." Liddy concluded: "All right, I guess it's all over. Jerry Corsi will not be coming back, but he will live on in our memory. Good man, good man. All right, we've lost the satellite feed. ... But remember, you heard it here first: the death of Jerry Corsi, under torture, by Obama's relatives in Kenya."

Contrary to Liddy's suggestion that Obama was "born in Kenya," as Media Matters for America has documented, in addition to the Obama campaign's posting of a copy of Obama's birth certificate on its website, the campaign also reportedly provided the original to FactCheck.org, whose staff said in an August 21 post that they "have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate" and concluded that the document does, in fact, exist and that it "meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Liddy has repeatedly and baselessly suggested that Obama was born in Kenya, rather than in Hawaii, falsely claiming that Obama has yet to produce a U.S. birth certificate.

Also, earlier in the broadcast, Liddy hosted Joseph Farah, founder and editor of conservative website WorldNetDaily.com, to discuss Corsi's detention. During the interview, Liddy asked Farah, "Now, in addition to freeing Dr. Corsi, are you also trying to free Obama's white grandmother?" Farah replied: "Good point. That's my next mission." Liddy's question echoed a 2007 Newsmax.com column by Andy Martin, a self-described "Internet journalist," titled "Free Obama's White Grandmother." In the column, Martin wrote that Obama, whom he called "one of the most racist politicians in America today," has "locked the grandmother who actually raised him away in a closet," adding: "[T]he 'segregation' of Madelyn Dunham, Obama's white grandmother, and only real grandmother, has to be one of the cruelest and most mendacious political kidnappings this nation has ever seen." As Media Matters has documented, Martin has a history of anti-Semitic and racially charged comments. Martin recently appeared on the October 5 edition of Fox News' Hannity's America and baselessly claimed, among other things, that Obama's work as a community organizer was "training for a radical overthrow of the government."

From the October 7 broadcast of Radio America's The G. Gordon Liddy Show:

LIDDY: There you go. Folks, I just want you to know that I'm speaking with Joseph Farah. He is the founder and the chief editor of WorldNetDaily. It's on the Internet at wnd.com or WorldNetDaily.com. It is the world's first and largest -- it's gigantic -- Internet news agency, and we're very proud of Mr. Farah and happy to know him. OK, thank you, Joseph. From the great state of Texas, Brother Jim.

FRANKLIN RAFF (executive producer): Had a question for Joseph, actually.

LIDDY: Has a question -- oh, has a question for Mr. Farah.

CALLER: OK, good morning, Joseph and Gordon. I'm just startled by your news about Jerome Corsi being held in Kenya. Do you think that that news will reach the debate setting tonight?

FARAH: I hope to have Mr. Corsi, Dr. Corsi, on a plane to the U.K. before that debate takes place. If that is not the case, I hope we can make enough noise about this to make it an issue tonight.

LIDDY: Yeah. Now, in addition to freeing Dr. Corsi, are you also trying to free Obama's white grandmother?

FARAH: Good point. That's my next mission.

LIDDY: OK, Joseph. God bless you.

FARAH: Thank you, guys.

LIDDY: All right. Oh, my.

[...]

[background audio clip from King Solomon's Mines]

LIDDY: All right, ladies and gentlemen. We've used the satellite connection to Kenya, and we are now focusing in on the trial of Dr. Jerome Corsi. He's -- he's being accused of impersonating a human being. My Zulu's not -- not as good as Obama's, but -- yeah, they're really upset with him. You can probably tell. All right, I don't know --

[crowd chanting]

LIDDY: That doesn't sound too good for Jerry Corsi. What are they going to do now?

AUDIO CLIP: This is where the fun begins.

[background audio: drums]

LIDDY: [unintelligible] This is it. This is the -- I think the entire Obama family is getting set to do something terrible to Dr. Corsi. I must say that Dr. Corsi appears to be bearing up with great courage. He's a man. Dr. Corsi will show 'em how to die. Yes, indeed. That is the -- says it -- the message is going out from Kenya to our brother in America, if I'm understanding the jungle telegraph drums correctly. "O great brother, born in Kenya, smuggled into Hawaii."

Oh, my. This does not look good for Jerry Corsi. Yes, I think they're going to burn his book now. Matter of fact, they seem to have -- yeah, they've piled up a lot of -- a lot of his books, and t