The Noise Before Defeat
'Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.'
--Chinese General Sun Tzu. You get three guesses about why I might have found this quote timely.
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Friday, November 24, 2006
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2 Comments:
My 3 guesses:
1) you are impatient.
2) you are talking about the war in Iraq
3) It has something to do with your 50,000 words in November?
Okay, I dunno.
Give me another hint about strategy vs tactics?! Thanks.
Chris
Chris,
Good to see you here, and glad to see you're blogging. And bingo, you hit it: it's B. And just for the record, it wasn't me that was writing 50,000 words in November, but a friend named Jeff Hess, per an earlier post.
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