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to play chess we memorize patterns of clever moves and search for the crux—the place where the patterns of forces may allow us to take advantage of an opponent’s (apparent) weaknesses.
Richard Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
In our endeavors, we will face complex problems, often in situations we’ve never faced before. Opportunities are not usually deep, virgin pools that require courage and boldness to dive into, but instead are obscured, dusted over, blocked by various forms of resistance. What is really called for in these circumstances is clarity, deliberateness, an
... See moreRyan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy
So when your troops get sick, or their horses begin to starve, or tsars don’t follow the scripts you’ve written for them, you sketch what you know and imagine—informed by the sketch—what you don’t: this allows recovering from surprises and moving on. Strategists and artists are, therefore, on the same page in Clausewitz, or, more accurately, pages,
... See moreJohn Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
The best way I’ve found to think about this problem is with the game of paintball. You start off with a purpose, maybe it’s to capture the flag in a building. The next step is to understand the landscape and the obstacles in your path. Naturally, a bunch of newbies will tend to charge out onto the field of battle without understanding their landsca... See more