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Strategy and Contradiction: Towards a Theory of Strategic Judgement

Colin Henderson

M.L.R. Smith Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those derived from personal academic reflection. They do not represent or reflect any views or positions, either formal or informal, of any branch of the Commonwealth of Australia. Strategy is often understood as the intellectual process through which political purposes are related to the means available for their achievement, usually under conditions of uncertainty and opposition.[1] It is this understanding that provides the starting point for most strategic thought.[2] Conceiving strategy in these terms, however, invites an earlier question. Before political ends can be related to available means, before courses … Continue reading Strategy and Contradiction: Towards a Theory of Strategic Judgement

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How AI is transforming strategy development – McKinsey

Colin Henderson

Citation: About the authors This article is a collaborative effort by Alexander D’Amico, Bruce Delteil, and Eric Hazan, with Andrea Tricoli and Antoine Montard, representing views from McKinsey’s Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice. At its core, strategy entails deriving insights from facts and data, developing real options based on those insights, making hard-to-reverse choices, and executing initiatives that convert those choices into value. Data analytics has assisted in this work for several decades, but never before has technology been able to not only augment and partially automate inputs into strategy but also combine them into complex analyses. In time, it may even recommend … Continue reading How AI is transforming strategy development – McKinsey

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The Return of Hamiltonian Statecraft

Colin Henderson

A Grand Strategy for a Turbulent World By Walter Russell Mead September/October 2024Published on August 20, 2024 The twenty-first century has seen the return to prominence of U.S. foreign policy traditions once largely considered relics of an outmoded past. Jacksonian national populism, once dismissed as an immature sentiment that an enlightened nation had left behind, returned with a fury after 9/11. With the George W. Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq in 2003, Jeffersonian isolationism—the belief that U.S. intervention abroad leads only to endless war, the enrichment of corporate elites, and the erosion of American democracy—also reemerged as a potent force on both … Continue reading The Return of Hamiltonian Statecraft