Clausewitz: friction, uncertainty, and a purpose set from outside
The gap between the plan and the execution is made by friction — the small things no plan ever counts. And no means can state its own purpose: that is always set from outside it.
Club plans collapse not through big mistakes but through small things adding up, partial information, and nobody having said what the means is for.
- The situation
An event planned for a month collapses because the key to the room is with someone who has gone away. Nobody asked.
- What the model says
The plan held only if everything happened on time. A plan like that does not really work.
- What you do
Against the five things that must happen on time, write a name and a fallback; if you cannot invent one for three of them, simplify the plan now.
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Of the ten gslk competency domains, this work grounds:
The same work written for a member: what to do with it in the club.
This text is freely available, so the links go straight to it rather than to a summary of it.
- On War — the 1873 Graham translation, chapter by chapter
- Stanford Encyclopedia on the philosophy of war — where Clausewitz sits in it
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