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> something more like roadmap Yes and: Strategy & Tactics Beyond the inability to reason about stuff, not even asking Who What Why When Where and How, the inability to divide & conquer, the hostility to verifying assumptions (eg will any one buy our stuff?), etc. etc. I've met very few people, any where, in business or politics, that can war game scenarios. Much less reason about tactical decisions. Or even know the difference between strategy and tactics. My hunch, totally unvalidated, is a strategic thinker isn't especially smart or talented, so much as everyone else is fantastically, tragically inept. I always marveled about the rise of Microsoft. Sure, they did some good stuff, made some good moves. (And then later was simply criminal.) But OMG their competition was terrible. Ashton-Tate, WordPerfect, Novell, Lotus, and probably a zillion others. So many defeated themselves. Microsoft was like the Bolsheviks; they found power lying on the street, after every one else imploded. |