Today’s installment goes beyond business and looks at some of the craziness in the world today.
Sun Tzu opens chapter 4, on “Dispositions,” by warning the reader that truly skilled warriers first make themselves invincible, and then await an enemy’s vulnerability.
This one sentence—which remember, is held by many people in many quarters to be part of the most sage collection of military wisdom ever documented—completely undermines the strategic underpinning of Amercia’s current War on Terror.
Abstract: how to fight fights you can win, plus the big whammy from chapter 3: To know yourself and your enemy is to never fear 1,000 battles. To know yourself but not your enemy, is to win and lose in equal measure. To know neither yourself nor your enemy, is to be in peril in every battle.
The key objective of war is WINNING, and the key to winning is SPEED.
Abstract: How to maximize your conceptual thinking ability, and how to recognize intelligence in others.
Why organizing things in lists can make it more difficult, not less, to master them.
Reframe the way your followers think about strategy. Recognize that there is as much science behind human capital as there is behind financial capital and abide by its rules.
Abstract: the spike in oil prices has more to do with what the market will bear than any other factor.