Las 33 estrategias de la guerra

Key takeaways:

- The way Robert presents his ideas, he seems like the kind of person you would only do business with once, after that you would want to stay far away.
- He talks often about crushing or dominating people on your team or enemies. From my experience, I think a collaborative approach is much better. I would rather earn my place by working harder and being more creative than by outwitting or outmaneuvering everyone around me.
- I think there are probably a few select times in a persons career or business where these principals are practical and effective, but living these principals on a daily basis is unlikely to lead to a happy life.
- “Over confidence, particularly as a result of success, will make you go to far.”
- “War demands the utmost in realism, seeing things as they are.”
- “The last war you fought is a danger, even if you won it. If you are victorious, you will tend to repeat the strategies you just used, for success makes us lazy and complacent. If you lost, you may be skittish and indecisive.”
- “We tend to over estimate others' abilities, after all, they are trying hard to make it look like they know what they are doing, and we tend to underestimate our own. You must compensate for this by trusting yourself more, and others less.”
- “Reading and thinking about [new ideas] won't work. You must put them into effect.”
- I loved the section where it talked about General George Marshall training leaders under him. He spent a lot of time transferring his ideas and thoughts to people who could become ‘replicas' of himself.
- “The essence of strategy is not to carry out a brilliant plan that proceeds in steps. It is to put yourself in situations where you have more options than your enemy does...True strategy is being able to do strategy A, B, or C, depending on the circumstances.”
- “If you want to make people with low self esteem feel better about themselves, praise has a superficial effect. Instead prod them into accomplishing something tangible, giving them a real experience. That will translate into a much deeper feeling of confidence.”