Milo Jones: What Can Investors Learn From Intelligence Agencies’ Failures?

Dr. Milo Jones is currently a Senior Advisor for Geopolitics and Technology at Arcano Partners in Madrid, and a Visiting Researcher at the Changing Character of War Centre at Pembroke College Oxford.  In addition, he teaches at both IE Business School in Madrid and at Imperial College London.  Previously, he worked at Accenture in London, for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New York, and served as an officer in the US Marine Corps.  He is the co-author of Constructing Cassandra:  Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001, published in 2013 by Stanford University Press.  A native of Manhattan, he currently lives in Warsaw, Poland. https://www.linkedin.com/in/inveniam/ https://twitter.com/Inveniam   We talk about Milo’s eight years in the Marine Corps, the study of intelligence agencies’ failures that come from the failure of imagination. Milo discusses his work reframing those failures. Milo emphasizes the importance of the quality of questions and diversity in analyzing complex problems. We talk about the big-picture geopolitical situation and so much more.   The mental models we examine can help us make better decisions in all areas of our life, including investing.   What can we learn from intelligence agencies’ failures? Please help me welcome Milo Jones.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/inveniam/ https://twitter.com/Inveniam ---- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Crisis Investing: 100 Essays⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - My new book. To get regular updates and bonus content, please sign-up for my substack: ⁠⁠⁠https://bogumilbaranowski.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠ Follow me on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/bogumil_nyc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bogumil Baranowski⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ NEVER INVESTMENT ADVICE.