This Man Can Fight
When pressed to defend General Ulysses S. Grant after Grant won a decisive battle for the Union Army but at huge cost of Union lives President Lincoln simply replied, “I can’t spare this man, “He fights!”
Lincoln went through numerous “better educated & more experienced” Generals during the American Civil War. One was General Brinton McClellan. McClellan was a superb organizer and trainer of soldiers. His weakness lay in the fact he was more interested in strategizing and preparing for an upcoming battle than engaging in it.
McClellan couldn’t stomach casualties; McClellan hated the unpleasantries of battle.
Lincoln knew for all Grant’s faults, and he had plenty; Grant could “take casualties”. Grant was a fighter.
Make no mistake, business is a battle. There will be winners and losers. The picture above is of a computer war game I play to give my mind a break. Great players of this computer game preach staying on the offensive. Defensive players, they say, never amount to much.
Staying on the offensive is where I want to be. There will be lots of business casualties causing me to regroup, rethink and heal for a period of time. But the business attitude of staying on the offensive is the strategy I will focus to maintain.
Loser’s uniforms seldom get messy, winner’s uniforms always do.
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I love Starcraft…