Start-up Nation

2009.

8. Interview with Edward Luttwak.

9. Interview with Alex Vieux, CEO of Red Herring, May 2009.

CHAPTER 4.

Harvard, Princeton, and Yale

1. Interview with David Amir (fictitious name), August 2008.

2. Interview with Gil Kerbs, venture capitalist, January 2009.

3. Interview with Gary Shainberg, vice president for technology and innovation, British Telecom, August 2008.

4. IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (Lausanne, Switzerland: IMD, 2005).

5. Interview with Mark Gerson, executive chairman, Gerson Lehrman Group, January 2009.

6. Interview with Tal Keinan, cofounder KCPS, May 2008.

7. Interview with Yossi Vardi, angel investor, May 2008.

8. Background interview with U.S. Army recruiter, January 2009.

9. David Lipsky, Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point; and interview with Lipsky in March 2009.

10. Information from this passage is largely based on an interview with Colonel (res.) John Lowry, general manager at Harley-Davidson Motor Company, November 2008.

11. Interview with Jon Medved, CEO and board member, Vringo, May 2008.

12. This experience prompted the army leadership to pursue a proactive public relations campaign to bridge the civilian-military divide, which included reaching out to Rolling Stone and offering access to a West Point class. This effort culminated in David Lipsky’s book Absolutely American. This passage is also based on author interview with General John Abizaid, May 2009.

13. Interview with Tom Brokaw, author, The Greatest Generation, April 2009.

14. Interview with Al Chase, corporate executive recruiter and founder, White Rhino Partners, February 2009.

15. Interview with Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away, March 2008.

16. Interview with Brian Tice, captain (res.), U.S. Marine Corps, February 2009.

CHAPTER 5.

Where Order Meets Chaos

1. CIA, “Field Listing—Military Service Age and Obligation,”The 2008 World Factbook.

2. Mindef Singapore, “Ministerial Statement on National Service Defaulters by Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean,” January 16, 2006.

3. Amnon Barzilai, “A Deep, Dark, Secret Love Affair,” http://www.israelforum.com/board/archive/index.php/t-6321.html.

4. Mindef Singapore, “Speech by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the 35 Years of National Service Commemoration Dinner,” September 7, 2007.

5. BBC News, “Singapore Elder Statesman,” July 5, 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/820234 .stm; retrieved November 2008.

6. Quoted in James Flanigan, “Israeli Companies Seek Global Profile,” New York Times, May 20, 2009.

7. Interview with Laurent Haug, founder and CEO, Lift Conference, May 2009.

8. Interview with Tal Riesenfeld, founder and vice president of marketing, EyeView, December 2008.

9. The information from this passage is largely taken from Michael A. Roberto, Amy C. Edmondson, and Richard M. J. Bohmer, “Columbia’s Final Mission,” Harvard Business School Case Study, 2006; Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo (Birkittsville, Md.: South Mountain Books, 2004); Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, Apollo 13 (New York: Mariner Books, 2006); and Gene Kranz, Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (New York: Berkley, 2009).

10. Michael Useem, The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All (New York: Three Rivers, 1998), p. 81.

11. Roberta Wohlstetter quoted in Michael A. Roberto, Richard M. J. Bohmer, and Amy C. Edmondson, “Facing Ambiguous Threats,” Harvard Business Review, November 2006.

12. Interview with Yuval Dotan (fictitious name), IAF fighter pilot, May 2008.