Schlagwort: On War
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Schwerpunkt: The Lost Art of Strategic Concentration
Most strategy decks are budget arithmetic dressed up as a plan. Clausewitz had a single word for what is actually happening — and a discipline for fixing it. The lost art of Schwerpunkt.
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Fog of War, Fog of Market: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Clausewitz’s answer to uncertainty was not better data — it was better judgment. Two centuries later, most boards still demand certainty before authorising action, and most strategy windows close before the data is ready. This piece is about the qualities Clausewitz called coup d’oeil and Fingerspitzengefuehl, and what they mean when the dashboard is incomplete…
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Friction Is the Strategy: What Clausewitz Knew About Execution
Clausewitz’s 1832 concept of Reibung — friction — is not a complaint about execution. It is the structural diagnosis that strategy decks still refuse to internalise two centuries later. Any strategy that does not budget for friction is not a strategy; it is a wish.