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Blog: Learning by doing 301: From tactics to strategy
cc Philippe Duhamel, interTactica.org
Why is a strategy important? Having a strategy helps you keep the initiative in your hands, enhance your ability to see opportunities, use your strengths to the best advantage, and minimize your weaknesses.
— from Why Strategy and Tactics?, available here at NewTactics.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics
without strategy is the noise before defeat.
— Sun Tzu
What is strategy in relation to tactics? How does the strategist differ from the tactician? Find out some of the steps towards designing a good strategy. Third in a three-part series on moving from activity, to tactics, to strategy.
Blog: Learning by doing 201: Becoming a good tactician
“As I have had more experience in shaping the strategy of an organization, it has become clearer to me that the more we understand about tactics, the more flexibility we have to set new strategic directions. [...] Tactical development enriches strategic thought.”
“The skillful tactician may be likened to a snake that is found in the ChUng mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both.”
— Sun Tzu
Second in a three-part series on moving from activity, to tactics, to strategy.
So what makes a good tactician? In today’s piece, I’ll tell you some features of a good tactical mind and provide a couple analogies about areas where you, as a learning tactician, can concentrate your skills. But let me start with a little story.
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Blog: Learning by doing 101: Activities create the activist
As with so many leaders who emerge at the grass roots level trying to right a wrong, I began at the level of an activity, graduated to thinking about tactics, and struggled to understand how to shape strategy, with only limited notions of the tools that were available to me.
— Douglas A. Johnson, in The Need for New Tactics
(First in a three-part series on moving from activity, to tactics, to strategy.)
How does one become an activist? How does someone grow from being oblivious to larger issues to caring about them? And, how does one move from being a “concerned citizen” to the crucial step of devoting precious time and energy to taking determined, organized action for a cause?
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