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J. F. C. Fuller
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
"the British general whom the Germans credit as one of the sources of the Blitzkrieg, J. F. C. Fuller: It was to employ mobility as a psychological weapon: not to kill but to move; not to move to kill but to move to terrify, to bewilder, to perplex, to cause consternation, doubt and confusion in the rear of the enemy … 18 In other words, the purpose of Blitzkrieg strategy was not so much to cope with chaos, but to cause and then exploit it, and it is this cascading of panic and chaos that accounts for the German’s “string of luck.”"
Source:Certain to Win
"One of the contributors to the Blitzkrieg concept was, oddly enough, a British strategist, J. F. C. Fuller, whose works before WW II were carefully studied by the Germans."
Source:Certain to Win