Can We Model Opportunity?: CAPT. Wayne Porter USN at TEDxMonterey

Can we model economic opportunity and revitalization? In his data rich TEDxMonterey talk, CAPT. Wayne Porter, USN explains why policy makers should embrace systemic approaches to strategy and how in the future we might visualize innovative and sustainable solutions to intractable economic development challenges.

CAPT Porter He is a "Walton Fellow" at Arizona State University's Global Institute of Sustainability and is currently Chair of Systemic Strategy and Complexity at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. He has completed tours of duty in Japan, England, Italy, the Balkans, Bahrain (Navy's Director of Intelligence in the Persian Gulf/East Africa), and three tours on the personal staff of ADM Mike Mullen, including Special Assistant for Strategy to both the Chief of Naval Operations and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Co-author with Colonel Mark Mykleby of "A National Strategic Narrative" published by the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (www.nationalstrategicnarrative.org), his work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Journal of American Foreign Policy Interests, The HotSpring Quarterly, Washington Times, and Naval Institute Proceedings.

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