Complete Archive
This is the decade+ archive of the popular blog/newsletter that led to my book "The Art of Corporate Warfare: How to change your approach and kick ass every day”.
The archive content is as useful today as it was when written, starting with the astonishing moral flexibility of the Enron era right up to the wild days of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the hyper-speed world of FinTech, where I currently spend much of my assignment time.
The chapters systematically illustrate how you can use time-tested battle techniques to win your own modern day business battles. Whether your battles are defensive or offensive, history can lend a knowing and brutally helpful hand if you know to look backward. The content herein provides that helping hand.
This library contains most of the chapters of the book and is searchable by using the Search tool to the right.
Tal Newhart
Chicago
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The "Plan with Branches"Chapter 2: Mistakes—And What Great Leaders Do About Them
Chapter 3: Avoiding Defeat Caused by Victory
Chapter 4: Six Traits of a Good Manager
Chapter 5: Winning or Losing with Near Certainty
Chapter 6: Concentration of Force
Chapter 7: The Risk of "Normal Innovation"—And What to do About It
Chapter 8: About Generals and CEOs
Chapter 9: Controlling Napoleon
Chapter 10: Avoiding Your Own Charge of the Light Brigade
Chapter 11: Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus: The Perfect Leader?
Chapter 12: A CEO Talks about the Importance of Grokking
Chapter 13: A Reader's Strategy—Act Like a Snake
Chapter 14: Getting Ahead Through Fakery
Chapter 15: How to Avoid Your Own Waterloo
Chapter 16: What We Seem to be Forgetting & Why We're in Trouble
Chapter 17: The Key Trait of a True Corporate Warrior
Chapter 18: “The Feint”: Genghis Khan and Henry Kravis—Different Time, Same Tactic
Chapter 19: How a Famous CEO Stays so Calm
Chapter 20: Preventing Systemic Failure (Things to Look Out For)
Chapter 21: Upturning, in a Downturn
Chapter 22: Pressuring Generals (CEOs) to disclose their plans—Wrong!
Chapter 23: Bill Swanson's "25 Unwritten Rules of Management"
Chapter 24: Normal vs. Extraordinary Performance (vs. Vanity)
Chapter 25: Holiday Comments about Corporate Responsibility
Chapter 26: "Capitalist Gone Wild!!"
Chapter 27: A Useful Business Weapon Called FUD
Chapter 28: FUD Update
Chapter 29: More lessons from the Corporate Battlefield with Client X
Chapter 30: Some Basic Rules of Corporate Warfare
Chapter 31: How a Fortune 500 CEO Helps Change Happen in 7 Steps
Addendum: Some Interesting and Useful Interviews
