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About Adrian Wolfberg

I am currently serving as the Chairman of Defense Intelligence, Department of National Security and Strategy, U.S. Army War College, a rotational assignment from the Defense Intelligence Agency. My path getting here began in 2005 when I created and led the DIA Knowledge Lab for five years, an innovative internal consulting-like capability to help employees learn how to learn. I led Crossing Boundaries, a three-year program from 2006-2009, that helped generate over 425 employee-initiated new solutions to unsolved organizational problems, of which over 50% of these were implemented. From this experience, I enrolled in a doctoral research program and earned a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management. There, I concentrated on decision-making and learning under varying conditions of information overload, uncertainty, and ambiguity. I am interested in the decision-making processes used by senior military leaders, how analytic information is created and received by senior leaders, and how to assess the degree to which an individual possesses the ability to absorb new information.

The Dark Side of Clarity

September 25, 2017 by Adrian Wolfberg 2 Comments

Clarity is a narrative that can be weaponized—to cause emotional and social damage instead of … [Read more...]

When are the ramifications of our actions not predictable?

July 4, 2017 by Adrian Wolfberg Leave a Comment

It is usually easy to predict within organizational settings the ramifications of our actions. … [Read more...]

Why are “best practices” often difficult to adopt?

June 13, 2017 by Adrian Wolfberg Leave a Comment

No one can argue that collaboration is bad, at least, unless too much activity in which collaboration … [Read more...]

Why are we so attracted to “superheroes?”

May 29, 2017 by Adrian Wolfberg Leave a Comment

Not everybody is attracted to or fascinated by superheroes, those imaginary characters we see and read … [Read more...]

Why “titles” (of articles, etc.) are so important

May 21, 2017 by Adrian Wolfberg Leave a Comment

Titles provide a window into the meaning of our thinking. Titles are normally formal constructs that we … [Read more...]

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