Posts tagged strategy
Stretching The Human Psyche
An Idea That Didn’t Come Easily It is not an exaggeration to say that I spent a large chunk of my life working towards what I am writing in this article. I knew there was something here, and I was searching for specifics, but those specifics – and words useful for describing them – were…
BP Oil Spill: A Disaster of Leadership and Strategy
A Failure In Leadership This article is based on a historically important article in the New York Times on the BP oil disaster. I will be referencing this article. Point of Failure #1 The article, which is important and should be read in full, walks us through publicly known (though not all well known) data…
On Friendship, Benevolence… And Strategy
A More Modern Version Instead of quoting Sun Tzu or Nietzsche, let me start with a version actually coined by my own father, one Eric Bourque: You should make your friends not want to be your enemies, and you should make your enemies want to be your friends. – Eric Bourque Seriously, there’s a ton…
Sun Tzu Didn’t Invent “Know Yourself, Know Your Enemy”
Sun Tzu Was Quoting A Proverb When Sun Tzu wrote (paraphrasing) “know yourself, know your enemy, and you shall win a hundred battles without loss,” he preambled it by putting that it was widely said that… etc etc. In other words, Sun Tzu didn’t invent, by any means, that proverb. It was in wide, popular…