leadership strategy Notes from Founders Podcast: Napoleon’s Maxims and Strategy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaPyk33pRM0
- Speed; F=ma.
- Moods effect our performance
- A great leader will resort to audacity. Always more audacity
- Paul Johnson: Alexander The Great moved swiftly. He invented the blitzkrieg.
- Edwin Lan -
- Charlie Munger — don’t be too timid in life — have a little courage.
- Two notes on his desk
- Do one thing relentlessly
- What assets do I have that I’m not using
- The purpose of strategic goals is to create the most beneficial state for your own self.
- History is full of examples of companies whose moats were filled
- Paradox of entrepreneurship is that you can’t teach it — it’s essentially novel.
- Prevent the beaten enemy from rallying.
- Looking for intelligent fanatics. Scale and fanaticism combined can be very powerful.
- Troops won’t follow officers they deem incompetent.
- The troops will not follow with confidence or enthusiasm those officers who they believe to be incompetent.
- Single threaded leadership: When authority is divided. opinion and actions differ and confusion and delay arises. A single chief pursues with vigor and does not delay by the necessity to confer.
- Sam’s Murray: if you know your business from A to Z, there is no problem you cannot solve.
- Napoleon: Extraordinary situations call for extraordinary resolutions.
- Possess obstinate will.
- Keep your forces united.
- Sam Hickey: People are power law and the best ones change everything
- Graham Duncan: Talent is the best asset class
- Intelligence & Talent balanced by Courage & Character - must be in harmony
- Hesitation and half measures lose all in war.
- Focus: Skill consists on bringing a concerntraion of fire on a single point
- Peter Thiel: Don’t divide your focus
- In war there is only one favorable moment, genius seizes it.
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