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Gibbon
Strategic Concepts & Mechanics
Cornerstone MoveOutsider Aggression as Market Entry
Cornerstone MoveTake the Pay Cut, Take the Risk, Take the Floor
Signature MoveSell Too Early, Never Go Broke
Signature MoveConviction Without Compromise
Capital StrategyBonuses Locked as Skin in the Game
Strategic PatternSchumpeter's Prophecy as Battle Cry
Signature MoveAll Capital Locked Inside the Ship
Risk DoctrineInflation Punishes the Poor First
Identity & CultureAthens Warning for Comfortable Democracies
Signature MoveInstill Faith Others Can't See in Themselves
Operating PrincipleControls as Volcanic Pressure
Signature MoveCrisis as Finest Hour Opportunity
Signature MoveNever Surrender Absolutism
Operating PrincipleMany Ideas Generate Few Good Ones
Cornerstone MoveWords as Weapons Before Bullets
Decision FrameworkIntense Simplicities From Complexity
Signature MoveSelf-Deprecating Humor as Disarmament
Identity & CultureDemocracy Despite Its Flaws
Risk DoctrineFighting Nations Rise Again
Cornerstone MoveSimplify Self Into Symbol
Signature MoveMemorized Speech as Spontaneous Performance
Strategic PatternShort Words Over Long Ones
Operating PrincipleAccountability Over Advisory Layers
Primary Evidence
"I was reminded of—and perhaps haunted by—what the historian Gibbon said of Athens. “In the end,” he wrote in his epitaph for the ancient Republic, “more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life and they lost it all—security, comfort and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom of responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free"
Source:A Time for Reflection
"Macaulay, Gibbon, Darwin, Plato, and Aristotle,"
Source:Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill