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Recognizing Limiting Situations

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Do you recognize a limiting situation and know how to manage it? One of the nine common strategic situation, a limiting position is vulnerable because it depends on a limited base of support. You move into a limiting position only when you have no other option AND you can keep your situation a secret because limiting positions are easy to attack.

Talk, Action, and Position

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Sun Tzu spends most of his ninth chapter, Field Position, explaining how to interpret the difference between people's words and their actions. When your actions contradict your words, you always betray your real position. This is especially a problem for elitist leaders, who often think that they can preach one set of rules while living by another. Europe with its long tradition of class distinctions often expects its leaders to act like elitists, but America has a very different tradition.

Leaders Must Be Trustworthy

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While Sun Tzu's strategy teaches us how important it is to control perceptions (and understand how others are seeking to control perceptions), Sun Tzu also teaches that a leader must be trustworthy. Do these two demands conflict? This article entitled "Should you trust the government?" by Arnold Kling in TCS daily discussions many of the issues. The difference between successful "high-trust" societies is that we trust strangers while in low-trust societies, trust is only extended to those we personally know.

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