The 7 habits of highly successful intelligence analysts

I just love these kinds of lists, that boil things down to the essentials: In a September 11 post in the Digimind blog, Orlaith Finnegan let Monica Nixon of NICS and “Bob A.”, ex Navy intelligence, put down the following 7 habits of highly successful intelligence analysts:

1) Be Organized and Disciplined
2) Communicate with Confidence, Clarity and Credibility
3) Find Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise
4) Adopt a Patient, Methodical Approach
5) See the Bigger Picture
6) Be Flexible and Responsive to Change
7) Learn from Mistakes

For each point in this list, read the full description in the original article:
http://digimind.com/blog/market-industries/the-7-habits-of-highly-successful-intelligence-analysts/