Notes from Founders Podcast: Napoleon’s Maxims and Strategy
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* Speed; F=ma.
* Moods effect our performance
* A great leader will resort to audacity. Always more audacity.
* We will be bold
* Paul Johnson: Alexander The Great moved swiftly. He invented the blitzkrieg.
* Edwin Lan -
* Charlie Munger — don’t be too timid in life — have a little courage.
* Two notes on his desk
* Do one thing relentless
* What assets do I have that I’m not using
* The purpose of strategic goals is to create the most beneficial state for your own self.
* History is full of examples of companies whose moats were
* Paradox of entrepreneurship is that you can’t teach it — it’s essential novel.
* Prevent the beaten enemy from rallying.
* Looking for intelligent fanatics. Scale and fanaticism combined can be very powerful.
* Troops won’t follow officers they deem incompetent.
* The troops will not follow with confidence or enthusiasm those officers who they believe to be incompetent.
* Single threaded leadership: When authority is divided. opinion and actions differ and confusion and delay arises. A single chief pursues with vigor and does not delay by the necessity to confer.
* Sam’s Murray: if you know your business from A to Z, there is no problem you cannot solve.
* Napoleon: Extraordinary situations call for extraordinary resolutions.
* Possess obstinate will.
* Keep your forces united.
* Sam Hickey: People are power law and the best ones change everything
* Graham Duncan: Talent is the best asset class
* Intelligence & Talent balanced by Courage & Character - must be in harmony
* Hesitation and half measures lose all in war.
* Focus: Skill consists on bringing a concerntraion of fire on a single point
* Peter Thiel: Don’t divide your focus
* In war there is only one favorable moment, genius seizes it.
A study in simplicity and uncommon common sense
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