Why Modern Leaders are Too Afraid of Friction (Carl von Clausewitz)

Carl von Clausewitz on Why Capable Modern Leaders are Too Afraid of “Friction”

Carl von Clausewitz never met a management consultant. The Prussian general, writing in the early 19th century, would have found their obsession with efficiency puzzling. He spent his career studying war, the messiest human endeavor imaginable, and came to understand something most modern leaders have forgotten: friction is not a bug in the system. It […]

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