Corporate Intelligence Awareness

CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE AWARENESS

Predict Future Outcomes - Secure the Competitive Edge!

Use available people expertise to find out what others donâ€™t knowâ€¦and act on it before they do!

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Protect Assets, valuable information, process and operational detail.
Sell information/intelligence upward through effective report writing, and strategic relationship building.

Corporate Intelligence Awareness, in people terms, refers to innate human capacity to think creatively when faced with the unknown or unproven. The greater the capacity of an organization and its people to work with confidence in the dimension of potentials, possibilities and maybes, the greater the ability to predict accurate future business outcomes.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Courage of Richard Colvin - Intelligence & the Burden of Truth

The Afghan torture whistleblower saga, around the renewed testimony of senior Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin, illustrates an age old conundrum that faces intelligence agents. Oftentimes in the field, sent specifically to be the eyes and ears of governments/corporations, a good officer will:

- See what others do not - Draw attention to unwelcome/uncomfortable facts even if that puts a spoke in the wheel of current policy/activity

The more disconcerting their input, the more likely they will be:

- Ignored - Set impossible requirements of proof - Avoided by peers - Transferred elsewhere, with promotion (essentially paid to shut up)

Should they bravely persist, as did Mr. Colvin, full organizational weight will be brought to punish them for doing the very job they were paid to carry out! Text book steps in their regard will be taken in an effort to:

- Isolate their thinking - Publicly ridicule either input or character - Discredit either input or character

The danger of autocratic or more conservative organizations is that they have:

- An inherent illusion that seniority carries with it a sense of infallibility. (Might is right) - The ability to exploit the human phenomenon that see the folk on the street wanting desperately to believe in the bona fides of those in authority

With modern communications and social media it is thankfully becoming harder and harder to manipulate the masses.

It is perhaps opportune to reflect on the courage of people like Richard Colvin, their only motivation being to bring the truth to light! How sad that he and his ilk are so often perceived as negative, difficult or obstructive, and even persecuted merely because their message makes their superiors uncomfortable.

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