COMM229M

Posted on September 20, 2006

Here is a good quote from a book:

Put yourself in the position of a military commander on the verge of leading your troops into a major ground battle. The soldiers in your battalion are pumped up by a potent mix of fear and excitement. Caught up in the emotion, you order your soldiers to move forward into enemy territory. Within half an hour you’re completely surrounded by hundreds of heavily armed enemy soldiers on foot and in tanks. As you hear the unmistakable clicking sound of the safety locks being removed on a terrifying number of rifles aimed at you and your troops, the optimist in you thinks: “Perfect, just perfect. We can attack in any direction!” Then the realist in you kicks in as you begin to realize that imminent defeat, or worse, is at hand. Just before ordering a complete surrender, you wonder what you should you have done to have prevented this dangerous, woeful situation. As you and your soldiers lay down your arms and hope for kindness from the enemy, the answer comes burning through your sweaty skull: “Before moving into enemy territory, I should have conducted a situation analysis.”

On the other hand, who said I would order to surrender? ;-)

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