http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/israel-military-unit-ventures-biz-cx_gk_0208israel.html Forbes, Gil Kerbs, 2 aout 2007

Extracts :

Tal offered to compare engineering teams in the U.S. and Israel: “In the U.S., they have several times more budget and manpower. The average engineer there is much older, with many years of experience and lots of advanced degrees. Theoretically, it sounds like we have no chance to compete and be relevant. How can a bunch of children with no degree and several soldier-students with a degree but no experience succeed in accomplishing anything?

“Turns out we are successful. Flexible thinking is our advantage. For some positions, there’s a huge advantage to 18-year-old children who think they know everything–or, more precisely, who have been told time and again that no mission is too difficult for them. Take 10 of the smartest academics and they won’t be able to do half the work my team does.

”Unit members are taught that there’s no such thing as “impossible,” while “no” is something temporary that can change by persistence and insistence, even if it’s the Unit commander himself who said “no.”