Ecological

First, Do No Harm: The Example of Global Warming

In Sun Tzu's strategy, the goal is always improving your position. A common strategic errors is thinking that, if there is a problem, action is ALWAYS necessary. However, action only makes sense if it makes the situation better. There are many situations that action makes work. For example, Freeman Dyson, one of the world leading mathematicians and physicists, discusses the problem of Global Warming in exactly the context.

Unhappiness From the News and Getting a Perspective

I went for a haircut today and had an interesting discussion with the person cutting my hair. She was unhappy and frightened. Why? It came down to the fact that she watched CNN. She had a perfectly good life, a good husband, a job, no financial real worries, but she was certain she was worse off than any previous generation of human with global warming, the economy, the war in Iraq, and a million other things that were not a part of her life, but on television. I explained to her that the news media makes their money by scaring people and that she had to factor that in.

Recognizing Greatness Where We Find It

At the Science of Strategy Institute, we believe in recognizing greatness whereever it is found. We have been critical of the whole Global Warming hysteria for years because flies in the face of so many of the principles of good strategy: (adapting to outside change instead of try to fight it, not acting immediately on the basis of emotion, not filtering out evidence that runs counter to beliefs, trusting government instead of your own resources, and on and on). However, we must recognize greatness when we see it.

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