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Helmuth von Moltke
Strategic Concepts & Mechanics
Strategic ManeuverShape the Market Before You Enter It
Mental ModelTrust Is the Bandwidth of Implicit Communication
Structural VulnerabilityBad News Is the Only Useful Intelligence
Implementation TacticSchwerpunkt Over Vision Statement
Strategic PatternAmbiguity Outperforms Deception
Strategic ManeuverEngage with the Expected, Win with the Surprise
Decision FrameworkBe the Customer Literally
Mental ModelReorientation Speed Beats Execution Speed
Identity & CultureGardens Not Machines
Operating PrincipleDirections Beat Goals
Competitive AdvantageGroup Feeling as the Ruling Factor
Strategic ManeuverReconnaissance Pull Over Central Planning
Strategic ManeuverDelight Is the Ch'i of Business
Implementation TacticFingerspitzengefühl Through Decades, Not Seminars
Mental ModelIf You Can Be Modeled, You Have No Strategy
Strategic PatternToyota as Maneuver Warfare in Manufacturing
Mental ModelFog Grows Inside the Slower Organization
Implementation TacticPromote the Doers, Remove the Resisters — One Night
Competitive AdvantageSnowmobile Building as Innovation
Operating PrincipleOrientation as the Schwerpunkt
Implementation TacticThe Mission Contract Replaces Over-Control
Primary Evidence
"Helmuth von Moltke, whose armies had won the wars that unified Germany, concluded that, “Strategy is a system of ad hoc expedients.”"
Source:Certain to Win
"the Chief of the Prussian General Staff in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke, observed in the mid-1800s, the greater risk is the loss of time that comes from always trying to be explicit."
Source:Certain to Win