Before reading Warfighting (Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1) I thought business was uncertain and risky and difficult. After reading Warfighting, I now think business is relatively certain, positively safe, and relatively easy.
My god.
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(This isn’t to say that business are not also those things, but the picture Warfighting paints of war — “expect plans to go wrong, communications to fail, and men to make critical errors during execution” is just so much worse.)
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Some choice excerpts:
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Thanks for the excerpts and video links. What do you think of Bungay's Art of Action? His BCG background & love of models might appear too detached from real-life chaos. But he's also a military historian, and this book translates Clausewitz/Von Moltke into business, quite well.
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Fascinating. Never heard of him — will reserve judgment until I read him.