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The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
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A good strategy recognizes the nature of the challenge and offers a way of surmounting it.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
In China: The 100-Year Storm on the Horizon and How the Five Big Forces Are Playing Out
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Ben Horowitz on Peacetime vs. Wartime CEOs:
Management literature is almost entirely written for peacetime CEOs. Everything you learn about decision-making and delegation and “don't micromanage”, all these things are very peacetime oriented in the sense that in peacetime, you're much more focused on the development of the people and the organization
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Peacetime CEO works to minimize conflict. Wartime CEO heightens the contradictions.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The core of strategy work is always the same: discovering the critical factors in a situation and designing a way of coordinating and focusing actions to deal with those factors. A leader’s most important responsibility is identifying the biggest challenges to forward progress and devising a coherent approach to overcoming them.