Long article about Clark.

[Skwmom]

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this yet. I thought it was an interesting read.

<http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2003/030801_mfe_clark_1.html>

[maggrwaggr]

1. thanks for posting. Checking it out. n/t

ntt

[TheBigGuy]

2. "nothing more than a long shot"

pretty much the way I see it too.

[TheBigGuy]

3. 5-3-100 year outcomes?

no one has 100 years as a planning horizon. But outcomes is sort of the latest buzzword in public administration....Clark is really a product of his DoD career for sure...

[tameszu]

5. Sure, the judiciary does, as do (presumably) environmental groups

That's why Clark cites the main 2 issues that we can affect over a 100-year timeline are the Constitution and the environment.

I might also add long-term demographics (i.e. rough population size), too, but maybe Clark subsumes that under the environment.

[Julien Sorel]

6. Everyone is using Outcomes in planning.

Outcome-oriented decision making is a part of Game Theory, and because I saw parts of this in Clark's thinking process, I used to think he was too much of an egghead to make an effective political candidate. I'm happy to say, I now think I was wrong.

I think the current wave comes from an Air Force guy named John Boyd. He created a decision making loop, 'Observe, Orient, Decide, Act,' to describe, in part, how fighter pilots should think in a dogfight. It was extended and broadened, and now is used in business as well as the military. You take the outcome, analyze the results against the expectations, figure out what went wrong and what went well, and start over.

[snyttri]

4. that's one of many articles demonstrating Clark's broad appeal

The more people of all stripes see of Clark the more they like him.
Dean was nothing more than a long shot until recently, and Clark doesn't stick his foot in his mouth.



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