Schlagwort: strategy
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Mercenaries Will Ruin You: Machiavelli on Outsourced Core Capability
Machiavelli’s argument against mercenaries was never about morality. It was about incentives. Apply it to consultants, gig labor, and outsourced core capability.
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Hyōshi: Musashi’s Discipline of Tempo
Musashi’s Fire scroll is not about combat. It is about temporal dominance — who controls the rhythm controls the outcome. Three modes of initiative, and the void between intention and action where contests are decided.
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The Way of Strategy: What a 17th-Century Swordsman Knew About Mastery
A duelist who survived more than sixty contests wrote the manual that postwar Japan’s executives read instead of an MBA. Three reasons it still works.
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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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Shaping the Battlefield: Sun Tzu on Positioning Before Competition
Sun Tzu’s most underappreciated concept is shih (势) — the potential energy of a chosen position. The decisive act in strategy isn’t the fight, it’s the positioning that makes the fight unwinnable for the other side.
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Know Before You Move: Sun Tzu’s Intelligence Doctrine
Sun Tzu’s Chapter XIII is a 2,500-year-old empirical claim: foreknowledge cannot be deduced from inside the room. Most companies still get this wrong — and the failure rates are measurable.