____________________________________________ 12 IICC Perspectives The failure of imagination: A difficulty well-known to plague analysts is the inability to assess events of an unfamiliar magnitude, which writers (Tom Clancy, for example) and screenwriters do not find difficult at all. Too little brainstorming and too much faith that quality information will produce an answer to the riddles, and perhaps even suppressing people with a different mindset, prevented an early understanding of the coming attack. One exception was 8200 Warrant Officer "V", which, according to media reports, anticipated the planned scope of the Hamas attack, but unfortunately, she did not take exploit her "duty of personal warning" and did not warn her superiors, and especially - the Director of the Military Intelligence (DMI). Failure to share and distribute information: About a decade ago, a transition based on technology was made to production and distribution methods which rely more on internal email and less on focused distributions, as in the past. The change was in the concept of pulling or "fishing" information from a "Pool", instead of pushing it to the relevant analysts. It could result that in various places, including critical ones, a missing intelligence picture might be created, without the responsible parties knowing that part of the relevant, maybe even important information, had not reached them at all. Personality-organizational failures: Such failures included arrogance and hubris, conformism, groupthink and wariness of expressing a different opinion. In our view at least, arrogance is a chronic disease prevalent in organizations which rely on top quality personnel, who are highly praised for their achievements in the world of "secrets". Tom Clancy (Source: APE) A metaphor (without additional words…) (Source: Wikipedia)
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