Mittani is rather productive in his writings

Here how to avoid and get out of a failure cascade.
http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/71550Red Pen: This category covers any kind of op announcement or "Call to Arms" which includes negative reinforcement as a motivator, demanding that pilots show up and fight "or else." Threatening people to play a voluntary and sometimes tedious spaceship game is not a winning strategy when your alliance is on the defensive, and it inevitably reduces participation and defensive capability - even if in the short term it seems like things perk up. Red Pen announcements are a good indicator that your alliance is being run by mongoloids. Note that alliances will frequently make use of threats when going on the offensive, and that this isn't necessarily a sign of weakness; an offensive Red Pen is used as an excuse to purge corporations or individuals who aren't pulling their weight.
I so wish that MD reads this and understands that threatening people to show up against small GK gangs who roam around is counter productive.
And lots of the things seem to fit ez :/