Notes from Founders Podcast: Napoleon’s Maxims and Strategy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaPyk33pRM0 * 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 Episode 286 I want to know where I die so I never go there. Peter Belvin Tao of Charlie Munger