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By chance, I picked up a copy of the “Art of War” by Sun Tzu . I noticed something that I had been missing in my understanding of strategy. Sun Tzu had described five factors that matter in competition between two opponents. Loosely speaking, these are: — purpose, landscape, climate, doctrine and leadership.
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
Clausewitz insisted on aggressively following up after concentrating force at the decisive point. Any strategy that doesn’t account for how to exploit victory is incomplete, inadequate. “What remains true under all imaginable conditions,”20 he wrote, “is that no victory will be effective without pursuit; and no matter how brief the exploitation of
... See moreJim Collins • Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0
Strategy began when people realized that telling warriors to ‘go out and fight the invaders’ didn’t work. Leaders had to impose a structure, a design, on how the group would fight. In a modern business, a strategy is the exercise of power to make parts of the system do things they would not do, if left to themselves.”
Richard Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
In the end Zuo was victorious in the "great policy debate" and won permission to launch a very expensive campaign to crush Ya`qub Beg's emirate and reconquer Xinjiang for the Qing, which he did by 1877.
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
The book of five rings: A modern-day interpretation of a strategy classic (Infinite Success)
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