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Chinese leaders’ distrust of the United States is largely based on deeply held cultural axioms that underlie nearly all Chinese strategic decisions.

The Hundred-Year Marathon

Michael Pillsbury

In situations of unpredictability, organizations need to improvise. And to do that, the players on the field need to understand the broader context. At the team level, this is self-evident. But at the broader institutional level, it is more difficult to engineer structures that are both coherent and improvisatory.

Team of Teams

General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell

First, surprise can take the form of what Brian Kylen calls “a bolt from the blue.”80 Something appears for which you had no expectation, no prior model of the event, and no hint that it was coming.

Managing the Unexpected

Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

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