Well, look what I just found quoted from no less a light than General Petreaus:
As I saw it then--and as I still see it now--there are four steps to institutional change. First, you have to get the big ideas right--you have to determine the right overarching concepts and intellectual underpinnings. Second, you have to communicate the big ideas effectively throughout the breadth and depth of the organization. Third, you have to oversee implementation of the big ideas--in this case, first at our combat training centers and then in actual operations. And fourth, and finally, you have to capture lessons from implementation of the big ideas, so that you can refine the overarching concepts and repeat the overall process.
His first two points pretty much exactly match my first point, and incorporate my third. He says 'implement', and I say 'make decisions'. Where I say 'be right' he says 'make the right choices, but then figure out where your implementation is deficient, and fix it', which is even better.
How cool is that?
The speech where those comments were made is here.
