Key Concepts in Human Resource Management

Young Jack features prominently. Jones wants to forward it to your intel people. I've got mine working it now. We didn't have it long enough to brief you." "Understood. We're about to lose the link. Take care, Mike." "Will do, sir." The picture dropped out instantly. Of all the artifacts they'd left behind, instant global communications, and the feelings of omnipotence they engendered were perhaps the hardest to let go. He had a lot of technical and human capital devoted to reinventing them, even though it would be many years before they showed any real results. His usual policy was to invest massively for the short-term gain. This war wasn't going to be won by the side that launched the first orbital rocket. More prosaic advances like a good grenade launcher, a better tank with a more powerful gun, penicillin, and smarter human resource management were the paths to victory. Even so, 4CI-command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence-were still the key to dominating the battlespace of the future, and he was not going to let anyone get a march on the U.S. in these fields ...»