Thursday, October 10, 2024

swords and plowshares (Maxwell D. Taylor)

 
Maxwell D. Taylor, Swords and plowshares, [1972]

written by Maxwell D. Taylor 

p.15
   “And he shall judge between nations and shall rebuke many people : and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spear into pruning hookes:  Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.”
                                 Isaiah 2:4
                                  Mieah 4:3

   “Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears : let the weak say, I am strong.”
                                Joel 3:10

p.340
of the money spent by the agencies of the [m]ission and certainly most of their efforts expended in 1964 and 1965 were directed toward the solution of political, economic, and social problems rather than military. 
 
p.340
For example, I was very proud of a pig farm program sponsored very successfully by our economic mission and often tried to get reporters to accompany me on inspection trips to see samples of it. 

p.342
, providing advisers to improve Vietnamese recruiting techniques, 
mobile u.s. medical dispensaries in the country side, 
u.s. army civil affairs personnel into the provinces, 
distributing food directly through American channels to Vietnamese military personnel and their families. 

pp.345─346
, I wrote him a long letter 
concentrate on 
bread-and-butter problems
as in the improvement of security, 
restoration of combat effectiveness in the many understrength units of the Army, 
elimination of incompetent military officers and civil officials, 
punishment of profiteering and hoarding, and
the reform of the tax-collection system.
clean-up of the rubbish stacked in the streets of Saigon and other cities 

Maxwell D. Taylor, Swords and plowshares, [1972]
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Adam Grant, Originals : how non-conformists move the world, 2016       [ ]
p.10
They become doctors who heal their patients without fighting to fix the broken systems that prevent many patients from affording health care in the first place. They become lawyers who defend clients for violating outdated law without trying to transform the laws themselves. They become teachers who plan engaging algebra lessons without questioning whether algebra is what their students need to learn.
[[ They continued to help and feed the poor (poverty) without questioning the  underlying causes and condition, and transforming the interaction and relationship that helps make the gap between the rich and the poor possible ... ]]

pp.10-11
The more you value achievement, the more you dread failure.

p.41
    Rice professor Erik Dane finds that the more expertise and experience people gain, the more entrenched they become in a particular way of viewing the world.

p.41
As we gain knowledge about a domain, we become prisoners of our prototypes.

    (Originals : how non-conformists move the world / Adam Grant, 2016, forward by Sheryl Sandberg, LCSH: Creative thinking. Creative ability in business. Organizational change. New products. Entrepreneurship. Success in business., ) 

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