{"id":691,"date":"2012-09-18T12:53:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=691"},"modified":"2012-09-18T12:53:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:53:31","slug":"global-changes-a-view-from-a-cia-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Global changes &#8211; a view from a CIA veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating view of macro scale changes from a very unlikely source &#8211; an ex-senior official in the CIA Clandestine Service.\u00a0 His comments echo some of my recent thinking about the potential impact when social movements meet social media, and the impact upon modern-day governance structures.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the view of Henry Crumpton (with my emphasis in bold):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The most important change on the global security and business stage is <strong>the empowerment of the individual<\/strong> and their ability to have inexpensive, exponential impact through technology and collaboration. This revolutionary development has led to an unprecedented shift in relationships, with a degree of asymmetric power never seen in the history of human conflict or commerce. There are <strong>micro actors with macro impact<\/strong> operating on a global landscape and they constantly challenge the status quo, and <strong>this trend is accelerating<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/management.fortune.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/14\/henry-crumpton\/?iid=SF_F_River\">A CIA veteran&#8217;s lessons for CEOs &#8211; Fortune Management<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating view of macro scale changes from a very unlikely source &#8211; an ex-senior official in the CIA Clandestine Service.\u00a0 His comments echo some of my recent thinking about the potential impact when social movements meet social media, and the impact upon modern-day governance structures.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the view of Henry Crumpton (with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-at-the-fringes","category-futures-thinking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}