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  • 1.  Advice

    Posted 01-05-2007 11:59
    Apologies for duplicate postings.

    Consider today?s headline: President Bush to change top officials in Iraq.

    Imagine you are a member of the Council of Organization advisors to the President. This doesn?t actually exist, but let us act as if it did.

    How would you advise the President to act if he wants to achieve the most positive outcomes possible to implement his new policy (details of which are unavailable at present).

    Should he replace the three top people, the Ambassador, the Commander of CENTCOM (Central Command), and the Commander of Ground Forces in Iraq in one fell swoop?

    OR

    Should he replace them at 3 month intervals (or longer)?

    What are the advantages or disadvantages of each approach. What contingencies would lead to one or the other approach being more successful.

    Which approach do you think would be more successful.

    Please DO NOT comment on the Iraq War itself or its execution to date. Please look forward  and decide on the approach you think will work best.


    Please reply off-line:  martin.evans@utoronto.ca


    I will post the results in a few weeks.

    Best wishes for the New Year.
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    Martin G. Evans
    Professor Emeritus,
    University of Toronto.

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