'..organizations with freedom- and responsibility-based environments..'

<blockquote>'..examples of military organizations with freedom- and responsibility-based environments are still rare. Marines and Special Forces are the closest to such environments.

Now, David Marquet has shown that it can work for Navy and he is convinced—unsurprisingly for the readers of this blog—that the same principles can work in any workplace.'

- US Navy captain David Marquet liberates his submarine and moves it from the US worst to first
December 14, 2013</blockquote>


If American subs can hold the line for another 20 years [2014 - 2034], China might age right out of its current, aggressive posture without ever having attacked anyone .. To be fair, almost all developed countries are also experiencing this aging, slowing and increasing peacefulness. '

<blockquote>'..If China doesn’t make a major military move in the next couple decades, it probably never will.

..

If American subs can hold the line for another 20 years, China might age right out of its current, aggressive posture without ever having attacked anyone. That’s because economic and demographic trends in China point towards a rapidly aging population, flattening economic growth and fewer resources available for military modernization.

To be fair, almost all developed countries are also experiencing this aging, slowing and increasing peacefulness. But China’s trends are pronounced owing to a particularly steep drop in the birth rate traceable back to the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy.

Another factor is the unusual speed with which the Chinese economy has expanded to its true potential, thanks to the focused investment made possible by an authoritarian government … and also thanks to that government’s utter disregard for the natural environment and for the rights of everyday Chinese people.

“The economic model that propelled China through three decades of meteoric growth appears unsustainable,” Andrew Erickson, a Naval War College analyst, told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.'

- David Axe, '.. U.S. submarines.', January 31, 2014</blockquote>


Context

<blockquote>(Management innovation) - The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy

A Future of Peace and Love</blockquote>