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I like this book a lot. The authors premise is that strategic intuition is based in Carl von Clausewitz's definition of coup d'oeil, strike of the eye. A glance, or flash of insight the describes as the key to strategy. This ability must be created and nurtured and balanced by expert intuition gain from the experience of an individual and strategic intuition based on experience combined with a focused effort to learn from history.
"This facile coup d'oeil of the General, this simple art of formi ...more
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Jan 06, 2012
Cameron Schaefer
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