Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.
Seattle was hardly a tech magnet before Amazon, Microsoft, and then a host of once-fledgling technology firms set up operations there.
We always have to remember that we, the Italians, have always cooperated with the U.S., and with Reagan and Carter and Nixon and Clinton, Bush and Obama. And Trump, Trump is the American-elected president. So, cooperation is there.
When I was at Teradata, I got called a growth guy. And then when I became C.E.O. of the whole company, I got called a cost-cutter. Then, I came to H.P. and became an operations guy.
For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.
I was in Saudi Arabia on 9/11 and was part of the initial leadership team to execute the initial combat operations in Afghanistan.
Few, if any, corporations absorb the full cost of their operations. Corporations shove many of their costs onto the environment, the public sector, and distant third parties.
Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.
Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.
The need for mission-critical, high-performance network continues to grow as companies and public sector organizations everywhere digitize their operations.
At the most basic level, a central bank must be clear and open about its actions and operations, particularly when they involve the deployment of public funds.