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> <channel><title>Real Strategy</title> <atom:link href="http://www.real-strategy.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.real-strategy.com</link> <description>Strategies:  what they are, how to devise, how to recognize, good and bad, strategy types, examples, puzzles, thinking skills, how to win with them.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:37:13 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>The Winds of Patagonia; Cooperative Strategy</title><link>http://www.real-strategy.com/strategy-design/the-winds-of-patagonia-cooperative-strategy/</link> <comments>http://www.real-strategy.com/strategy-design/the-winds-of-patagonia-cooperative-strategy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:30:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bill Carson</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[cooperative strategies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[strategy design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[strategy types]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antoine de Saint-Exupery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bump drafting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[car]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cooperative strategy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dogfight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[elements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[external factors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Enabler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mismatch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NASCAR]]></category> <category><![CDATA[parties]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Patagonia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[resource]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Strait of Magellan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sub-strategy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tierra del Fuego]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ushuaia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wind]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.real-strategy.com/?p=1049</guid> <description><![CDATA[Down the E. Coast of Patagonia My friend Marcelo organized a car trip through Patagonia.  As a young guy he had worked on a Patagonian estancia and knew the territory well.  The plan was to start in Buenos Aires, drive down the east side of Argentina through the Pampas, along the Atlantic Coast of Patagonia, cross the Strait of Magellan, spend Christmas week with friends in Ushuaia on the island of Tierra Del Fuego, then re-cross the Strait, head west, drive back north along the Andes Cordillera, and then east again to Buenos Aires.  6000 miles.  We would be stopping &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.real-strategy.com/?p=967</guid> <description><![CDATA[RISKY RELIANCE          Here we are online, looking for a pair of sneakers.  We’re at the site of a major online retailer.  [sorry - ignore this interruption: BYB6NREXZYJG]  So many sneakers to choose from.  A dazzling array of makes, models and colors.  How to choose?  After going down the search tree, we find several candidates that look pretty good.  Time to check out their customer reviews. Wow &#8211; so many 5-star customer ratings!  Funny.  As we read along, some reviews emerge as rather odd.  Maybe it’s the way the reviewer slipped into “marketing speak” – which we wouldn’t expect a real consumer &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.real-strategy.com/?p=856</guid> <description><![CDATA[COLD WAR CHILLS The Wall came down in 1989.  Over 20 years ago.  It’s easy to forget what it was like for the people living on both sides of it at the time. NATO had a very important role during the time of The Wall, and Germany and America were especially close partners.  Did you know that Germany had Air Force facilities in the U.S. (and still does)?  During the later part of the Cold War, I had business with the German Air Force, and flew out of a tightly guarded German facility at Dulles Int’l. Airport.  High cyclone fences &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.real-strategy.com/?p=858</guid> <description><![CDATA[FOLLOW-UP to the previous post:  here are some specifics on how to devise complex strategies. In that post we were using the example of Achim Weyer’s escape from E. Berlin.  Weyer had decided to escape by armoring a car and making it through a checkpoint (gate location) in The Wall. If we were to devise a complex strategy along the line of Weyer’s, we would go through a process of sketching two kinds of diagram.  This gets the key points of our strategy down on paper, and in the process, into our heads. The Objectives Diagram First, we’d identify the objective(s) (in this &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.real-strategy.com/?p=775</guid> <description><![CDATA[Recently in the news, reported by the Fox Network and various newspapers, incl. my local Coloradoan:  A North Carolina woman of the Wiccan faith locked horns with school district administrators.  She attempted to convince them not to allow the distribution of Christian bibles at the school her daughter was attending. The school district did so, anyway.  How to deal with this?  As it happens, the law gave the mother, Ginger Strivelli, just what she needed to devise a strategy that created an untenable dilemma for the administrators. The law reads that the administration has two choices.  1) If they refuse the &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.real-strategy.com/?p=521</guid> <description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re all wired to devise strategies. So you just have to put the right info into your head, and it will take care of the rest.  Let it all sit there.  Give your intuition an opportunity to do its work.  You’re objective will create the pull that draws out the strategy.  Your barriers and available resources, and their many possibilities, will shape it.  It will come to you. Here’s an example of devising a strategy This method is easy, and makes sense.  It follows the natural thinking sequence of  problem &#62; opportunity &#62; solution. Situation: You like to drink a &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.real-strategy.com/?p=42</guid> <description><![CDATA[How to Win a Race  It’s 1930.  It’s in the dark of night, near the end of the famous Mille Miglia (Thousand Mile) day/night endurance road race that started and ended in Brescia, Italy.  Renowned Alfa Romeo driver Achille Varzi is comfortable in his lead.  His nearest competitor has disappeared from his rear view mirror, his engine is running well, and his car is handling fine.  Now all he has to do is ease back on the throttle a little to protect the engine, and finish the race in the lead.  As he backs off his throttle about 3 Km from the &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.real-strategy.com/?p=99</guid> <description><![CDATA[On the 3rd of May each year, the women of Monsanto, Portugal, walk up a stone path from the town to the top of the mountain.  They enter the fortress there and then cast clay jars full of flowers down from its granite walls in commemoration of the villagers’ resistance to the many sieges in the town’s long history.  During a stay in the town, I was told a story about the clay jars and what they represent. They represent cows.  The story goes like this.  Long ago, perhaps in the 1100&#8242;s, Monsanto was under siege.  The people of the &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.real-strategy.com/?p=88</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gotta’ have Anatomy Look at the guys in the Rembrandt painting.  They’re old doctors getting an anatomy lesson from the one wearing a hat.  Troubling.  How can you have been a doctor unless you understood the parts of the body and how they work together?  But here these puzzled-looking doctors are, finally getting an anatomy lesson. Reminds me of where we are with strategy today.  We need a small dose of strategy anatomy. It was quite a lag in time before the Western medical profession adopted what should be considered the most minimal understanding necessary to be a practicing doctor.  But in many &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.real-strategy.com/?p=307</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trick question Question 1:  What do successful strategies for drilling a board, catching a pass and winning a dogfight have in common?  Answer:  a mismatch between an advantage and a vulnerability. Question 2:  In what way is Question 1 a trick question? Answer:  because at bottom all successful strategies are based on a mismatch – it has nothing to do with the specifics of the 3 examples. And that’s the point. To have a successful strategy of any kind, you have to arrange for a mismatch that will result in getting to your objective. And what is a mismatch?  It’s a disparity in some &#8230; <a
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