Double Entry Journal #11

1. Why are networks better than hierarchies?
People won't be merely information transmitters. They will be empowered assets, acting independently. Yet leaders will retain an important role: not through controls and detailed instructions but by instilling the basic vision, values, and objectives into the organizations and by holding employees to performance contracts.

2. What is a nation state and how is it being threatened?
They are associated with the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648. When the powers of continental Europe wound up the Thirty Years War with the pledge to let each country be ruled as its ruler desired.A struggling nations-state and mounting challenges to traditional politics together produce a sort of perpetual bad mood in political life.

3.How is civil society gaining legitimacy over government agencies? Give an example of a NGO ( Non-Government Agency) whose goals and services you think are beneficial to solving a global problem.
Civil society has become more powerful through increasingly deft use of new technologies. Thousand of web sites, instant news service, and alert systems have sprung up and are being used to form powerful coalitions of NGOs and other civil society groups.

4. How can business be a helpful global enforcer?
A business can be a helpful global enforcer by providing stuff we need everyday.

5. What can too much economic and social change lead too?
It can lead to political backlash, autarchy, and authoritarian forms of control that can destroy liberal values and human freedoms.





6. What Global Issue concerns you the most? Why?
The Global Issue that concerns me the most is the environmental issues. What is going to happen to the environment if pollution takes over or global warming? Are we still going to see the beautiful hills of West Virginia.