John Marshall Porter, MD(1938-2001)

The strange case of Field Marshall Sir John Dill.

Field Marshal Sir John Dill held the most important military offices of the Second World War. In the supreme crisis of May 1940, as the evacuations from Dunkirk were about to get under way, he was made Chiefofthe Imperial General Staff(CIGS). In the critical instant ofDecember 1941, as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reverberated around the world, he was translated to the United States to b...

Roy Porter

Strategy as Action: From Porter to Anti-Porter

In the post-crisis era new concepts are emerging, while some old and dysfunctional ones are being discarded. Strategy is about making series of decisions that drive corporate action under specific coupling with company’s environment and context. Because decisions are actions, so the strategy itself is action, not just a description of action. In the area of traditional strategy, descriptions (i...

Porter on Famine Diseases

Powering the porter brewery.

Before canals and railways developed as a major transport network, it was seldom profitable to transport beer inland over more than a few miles. In country towns and villages, therefore, beer would be brewed either by a small 'common' brewery that supplied a handful of pubs and private customers, or in an even smaller brew-house attached to the pub itself. Many families also brewed their own be...