This is how it works these days: Top military brass teaming up with the author of Three Cups of Tea, a book about building schools in Military brass Pakistan, to try to gain some insight that will help them hold off counterinsurgency. Why? Because that’s how you succeed. When the usual doesn’t work – the way it isn’t working in business these days – you find people who think differently, build alliances, and figure out what it’s going to take. What unlikely alliances have you thought about lately?