GCSP's e-Newsletter Issue No. 10, 26 August 2014 DISCOVER Open the new GCSP dictionary "Maison de la paix", "co-creation triangle", "The GCSP Way", "The GCSP Experience": our vocabulary has been enriched with many new terms in the past year. Before the academic year starts again very soon, we invite you to take a look at our interactive 2013 Annual Report to familiarize yourself with what these terms mean and how we strive to remain a leading, agile and innovative executive education institution for years to come. REFLECT South Korea/China: A Strategic Partnership in the Making Our latest Policy Paper argues that "the strategic partnership between China and the Republic of Korea is moving forward against a backdrop of growing power competition and instability in the region." According to its author, Alain Guidetti, a former Ambassador and Swiss career diplomat, "this dynamic underlines the dilemma Seoul faces in maintaining a strong military alliance with the United States, while turning increasingly toward China as its core partner for both its economic development and its North Korea policy." SHARE GCSP alumni and former staff at the forefront of conflict resolution in Ukraine Alexander Hug (Swiss Alumnus of the Senior Level Peacebuilding Course 2009) was appointed Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine in April. He was among the first international staff to arrive at the site of the MH17 plane crash last month and was part of the team that launched the investigation efforts. Ambassador Yurii Klymenko (ITC 1996-97 alumnus) has served as the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN in Geneva since January, while Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini, former GCSP Diplomat-in-Residence, was sent in May to represent the OSCE Chairmanship in a tripartite Contact Group that also includes Ukraine and the Russian Federation, and was instrumental in securing access of OSCE observers to the MH17 crash site. ACT "Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future." - Larry Page, Google Inc. CEO  Last month, the participants of the 4th Core Training Workshop on Design, Monitoring and Evaluation for Peacebuilding, Security and Development discussed the characteristics of high-performing organisations and found out that they share four key features:   a leadership that is able to articulate its overall goals clearly in order to gain understanding and buy-in from all employees; a low level of fear, thus encouraging creativity and spontaneous action; a richness in data, focusing on quality information, as opposed to a variety of monitoring indicators (which usually gives weaker organisations a false sense of control); the ability to handle bad news constructively. ACTION POINT >> Where does your organisation rank on this four-point performance scale?