Research Project                             [Revised again on January 12, 2005]

Title: Improving Decisions: Toward a New Age of Enlightenment

            Summary:  The project is the publication on the ASPEC website of ACSE a series of academic contributions by ASPEC members on topics discussed in a book in progress, Improving Decisions: Toward a New Age of Enlightenment. The innovation is a new way to expand our knowledge by sharing our expertise with one another using the book in progress as a vehicle of identifying topics and linking them in order to enhance our abilities to improve our strategic decision making.  This is facilitated by the Seminar on Improving Decisions, schedule noted below.

                     Part I - A Perspective of Our Current War on Terrorism

 

 

       Part II -   Predicting Outcomes: Understanding Their Thinking and Ours

 

 

     Part III ,  Predicting Outcomes: Developing a Strategy to End the War on Terrorism

 

 

The research project is focusing on the subject matter of Part II of the Seminar, Predicting Outcomes: Understanding Their Thinking and Ours.

It encompasses some additional material and is organized around seven essays that heavily draw from the book in progress and provide the spine for the additional essays of other members of ASPEC.

Additional reading material for the Seminar will be placed on the website in stages as team members contribute to the literature.

Contributions thus far include the following are now available in draft form on this web site.  Click on the following:

            Essay by John Khosh; Consilience: A Biological Example

            Essay by Carolyn Janik; What Happened to American Independence?

 

The seven essays by Mary Seldin, the seminar leader, are now available in draft form on this web site.  Click on the following:

            The Longest War

            Winning Peace

Thinking Changes Over Time

The Mind, Brain and Heart: A Paradigm for Predicting Outcomes

Visions and Values:  Western Heritage and Islamic Heritage

Education – The Notion Potion

Developing a Strategy to Change academic Behavior

 Material from the book is reachable by clicking on the following:

An Overview 

Part I, The Challenge to Our Thought Leaders 

Part II, What Were They Thinking? 

Part III, Strategic Decision Making 

Partial Bibliography 

An Expanded Sampling of Books and Topics for Discussion         

          Principal Investigator: Maury Seldin.     Team: In formation, so far includes John Khosh, Carolyn Janik, and Maury Seldin.  Others added as essays are posted on this website.