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Distributed Strategy; the Personal Dikes of Hamburg
HAMBURG is a special city. Having recovered from a real pounding during WWII, it’s become the 2nd largest port in Europe. The prosperity coming with that is everywhere evident, not least along the waterways: the many canals, and the large Elbe River, itself, with its energetic commerce. Many of the canals are lined with beautiful homes and trendy old brick warehouse conversions. The Elbe is its own trip. On the West bank resides the container ship port with all the ship traffic, giant cranes simultaneously unloading and reloading ships, and robotic vehicles transporting the containers to and from awaiting trains and trucks. … Continue reading
The Winds of Patagonia; Cooperative Strategy
Down the E. Coast of Patagonia My friend Marcelo organized a car trip through Patagonia. As a young guy he had worked on a Patagonian estancia and knew the territory well. The plan was to start in Buenos Aires, drive down the east side of Argentina through the Pampas, along the Atlantic Coast of Patagonia, cross the Strait of Magellan, spend Christmas week with friends in Ushuaia on the island of Tierra Del Fuego, then re-cross the Strait, head west, drive back north along the Andes Cordillera, and then east again to Buenos Aires. 6000 miles. We would be stopping … Continue reading
Posted in cooperative strategies, strategy design, strategy types Tagged Andes, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Argentina, Buenos Aires, bump drafting, car, cooperative strategy, dogfight, elements, external factors, Great Enabler, mismatch, NASCAR, parties, Patagonia, resource, Strait of Magellan, sub-strategy, Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia, wind 4 Comments
Escaping E. Berlin; A Simple Way to Devise Complex Strategies (1)
COLD WAR CHILLS The Wall came down in 1989. Over 20 years ago. It’s easy to forget what it was like for the people living on both sides of it at the time. NATO had a very important role during the time of The Wall, and Germany and America were especially close partners. Did you know that Germany had Air Force facilities in the U.S. (and still does)? During the later part of the Cold War, I had business with the German Air Force, and flew out of a tightly guarded German facility at Dulles Int’l. Airport. High cyclone fences … Continue reading
Posted in cool strategies, general strategy model, strategy design Tagged Achim Weyer, armor, Berlin Wall, car, Cold War, Cologne, complex strategy, crow, East Berlin, elements, General Strategy Model, Germany, how to, Luftwaffe, objectives diagram, opportunity, problem, security, solution, strategy definition, strategy diagram, sub machine guns, sub-objective, sub-strategy, thinking skills 5 Comments
Escaping E. Berlin; A Simple Way to Devise Complex Strategies (2)
FOLLOW-UP to the previous post: here are some specifics on how to devise complex strategies. In that post we were using the example of Achim Weyer’s escape from E. Berlin. Weyer had decided to escape by armoring a car and making it through a checkpoint (gate location) in The Wall. If we were to devise a complex strategy along the line of Weyer’s, we would go through a process of sketching two kinds of diagram. This gets the key points of our strategy down on paper, and in the process, into our heads. The Objectives Diagram First, we’d identify the objective(s) (in this … Continue reading
Posted in general strategy model, strategy definition, strategy design Tagged Achim Weyer, armor, Berlin Wall, car, checkpoint, Cold War, complex strategies, complex strategy, creative thinking, critical thinking, devise, East Berlin, elements, General Strategy Model, Germany, how to, Luftwaffe, objectives diagram, opportunity, problem, security, solution, strategy definition, strategy diagram, sub machine guns, sub-strategy 1 Comment
