{"id":10645,"date":"2014-03-09T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10645"},"modified":"2014-03-09T12:06:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T16:06:05","slug":"al-qaeda-and-napster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/al-qaeda-and-napster\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Qaeda And Napster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/030914_1602_AlQaedaAndN1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former American General Stanley McChrystal has launched a company that teaches executives how to use battlefield tactics in the corporate world:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three years ago McChrystal gave an interview to Rolling Stone that eventually got him fired. In need of a job he launched a startup that organized training courses for business leaders.<\/li>\n<li>The McChrystal Group points out that Al Qaeda was like Napster. Both were fast-moving, unpredictable, and something that established institutions didn&#8217;t quite know how to battle or defeat.<\/li>\n<li>General McChrystal upgraded the American military to counter the threat. Between 2004 and 2006 special ops missions in Iraq increased from 20 to 300.<\/li>\n<li>One company says that going through the training course (which involves burpees and puzzle solving challenges) helped the company grow earnings per share 39% by allowing them to react to unexpected weather events and to fight off a &#8220;YouTube attack ad&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Another company is using the training course to learn how to avoid being killed by newer competitors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the companies that are trying out the course, what the course entails, and how the battlefield compares to the boardroom over <a href=\"http:\/\/mag.newsweek.com\/2014\/03\/14\/zero-dark-inc.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mag.newsweek.com\/2014\/03\/14\/zero-dark-inc.html\">Newsweek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former American General Stanley McChrystal has launched a company that teaches executives how to use battlefield tactics in the corporate world: Three years ago McChrystal gave an interview to Rolling Stone that eventually got him fired. In need of a job he launched a startup that organized training courses for business leaders. The McChrystal Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/030914_1602_AlQaedaAndN1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10647,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions\/10647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}