Saddam Hussein

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Strategic ManeuverEngage with the Expected, Win with the Surprising Mental ModelSnowmobile Synthesis from Unrelated Parts Implementation TacticPromote the Practitioners, Remove the Resisters Strategic ManeuverShape the Market Before the Fight Begins Operating PrincipleFingerspitzengefühl Through Deliberate Apprenticeship Mental ModelImplicit Communication Beats Explicit by Orders of Magnitude Identity & CultureGarden Design Over Seed Selection Competitive AdvantageEinheit Outweighs Weapons Count Mental ModelOrientation Is the Schwerpunkt, Not Speed Structural VulnerabilityTwenty-Eight Years to Install Toyota's System Mental ModelIf You Can Be Sand-Tabled, You Have No Strategy Competitive AdvantageAsymmetric Fast Transients Beat Superior Force Identity & CultureSurvival on Your Own Terms as Strategic North Star Risk DoctrineClosed Systems Always Run Down Strategic ManeuverReconnaissance Pull Over Central Planning Capital StrategyCost Reduction as Daily Operating Discipline Implementation TacticMission Contract Replaces Micromanagement Structural VulnerabilityFog Grows Inside the Slower Organization Decision FrameworkBe the Customer, Literally Mental ModelSchwerpunkt Is a Focusing Concept, Not a Goal Mental ModelBad News Is the Only Useful Intelligence Cornerstone MoveOutsider-to-Kingpin Control Loops Strategic PatternWinning Through Distressed Takeovers Relationship LeverageCourt of Brokers and Right Hands Cornerstone MoveAsset Cycling to Capture Volatility Signature MoveNo-Sentiment Steel Disposal Strategic PatternOption-Loaded Contract Structures Risk DoctrineTax Residency as Strategic Moat Signature MoveMicro-Managed Outsourced Operations Decision FrameworkBuy Control, Outsource Operations Competitive AdvantageInformation Edge from Broker Web Operating PrincipleNo Sentiment for Old Steel Signature MoveShareholder Cash-Flow Relentlessness Operating PrincipleDeal-First, Fix-Later Mentality Cornerstone MoveDeal With Myself for Maximum Leverage Risk DoctrineFlags and Structures as Shields Signature MoveRisk Appetite As Primary Weapon

Primary Evidence

"Similarly in the First Gulf War (Desert Storm), the Marines offshore, and a visible massing of forces next to Kuwait, set up Saddam Hussein for Schwarzkopf’…"

Source:Certain to Win

"During the waiting period, on the night of August 2nd, Saddam Hussein attacked his neighbors in Kuwait, changing the global picture. For shipowners with large tankers, this was a day of terror. Instantly, all of Iraq and Kuwait's oil production was cut off from the world market. That was four million barrels a day, most of which was carried by the world's aged and rust-through tanker fleet. If Saddam crossed the border into Saudi Arabia, he could quickly reach the massive oil fields at Ras Tanura and shut off the taps for another eight million barrels a day. Such prospects were the worst imaginable for tanker owners. The world fleet of roughly 300 large tankers has no mission without the oil flow from the Gulf. No other shipowner in the world would have been more heavily affected than John Fredriksen, with two new supertankers delivered and six more on order. Steel worth over four billion kroner without use."

Source:Storeulv (translated)

Appears In Volumes

Certain to Win Storeulv (translated)