Let’s all applaud the corporate
“leadership team.” There they stand on the stage at the annual stockholders’
meeting. Sharp-looking (almost all) men, accomplished, highly paid, tough,
smart . . . and back at the shop knifing each other between the shoulder blades
at every opportunity.
Okay, you don’t think they’re really a
team.
How about this: The United States creates
a Department of Homeland Security to coordinate the anti-terrorism work of the
FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency and all those other intelligence
organizations – national, state and local – including the CIA. Teamwork intention on a grand, and very
noticeable, scale.
The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) itself
had been formed decades before to overcome the very obvious and costly
dis-collaboration among our spycatchers. It quickly became only one more part
of the problem. “Central Intelligence Agency” – get it? Get everybody together?
When?
Homeland Security pretty much seems to
follow the same pattern.
