If Donald Rumsfeld is not your hero, then you don't know the Power/Domination model.
From an article in Esquire on Rumsfeld: "
But perhaps the most stunning of Rumsfeld's plans are for something he calls the National Security Peronnel System, which will radically redefine civilian and military service in the Defense Department, changing from a longevity-based system to a performance-based system. Already, radical new features of this plan have been field tested in the Navy, where, in the past, so-called detailers told sailors where they where going on their next assignment - with little warning and like it or not. Eager to break that boneheaded tradition, the Navy is experimenting with an eBay-like online auction system in which individual servicemen and women bid against one another for desired posting. As Admiral Vern Clark told me, "I've learned you can get away with murder if you call it a pilot program."
So Clark is pioneering a system by which, instead of sending people to places they don't want to go on a schedule that play havoc with their home lik, "they're going to negotiate on the Web for jobs. The deision's going to be made by the ship and the guy or gal. You know, we're going to reate a whole new world here.' The plan is designed to save the services money and effor by reducing early departures from the ranks by people who just can't take it anymore. The Navy's so-called "slamming" rate, meaing the percentage of job transfers againt a person's will, has hovered at 30 to 35 percent in recent years. Theat means the Navy has been pissing off one third of its personnel on a regular basis. Now, under this program, the slamming rate is down to less than one percent.
More importantly, Clark's pilot program has already spread to the other services, and in turn could well change the very nature of civil service throughout the United States government."
But perhaps the most stunning of Rumsfeld's plans are for something he calls the National Security Peronnel System, which will radically redefine civilian and military service in the Defense Department, changing from a longevity-based system to a performance-based system. Already, radical new features of this plan have been field tested in the Navy, where, in the past, so-called detailers told sailors where they where going on their next assignment - with little warning and like it or not. Eager to break that boneheaded tradition, the Navy is experimenting with an eBay-like online auction system in which individual servicemen and women bid against one another for desired posting. As Admiral Vern Clark told me, "I've learned you can get away with murder if you call it a pilot program."
So Clark is pioneering a system by which, instead of sending people to places they don't want to go on a schedule that play havoc with their home lik, "they're going to negotiate on the Web for jobs. The deision's going to be made by the ship and the guy or gal. You know, we're going to reate a whole new world here.' The plan is designed to save the services money and effor by reducing early departures from the ranks by people who just can't take it anymore. The Navy's so-called "slamming" rate, meaing the percentage of job transfers againt a person's will, has hovered at 30 to 35 percent in recent years. Theat means the Navy has been pissing off one third of its personnel on a regular basis. Now, under this program, the slamming rate is down to less than one percent.
More importantly, Clark's pilot program has already spread to the other services, and in turn could well change the very nature of civil service throughout the United States government."
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