On business and battle: Meme 123.5
Long time no see! OK, this is worth a try, specially a Friday evening. As seen on The Vision Thing, all I have to do is
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
And show you what I've got:
They retained their battle formation from morning to twelve noon, when the soldiers became quite tired and sat down on the ground.
This comes from The Wiles of War, on Strategy 13th, "Beat the Grass to Frighten the Snake."
On why is it that I have a book on Stratagems here at the office, my intent seems clear: I plan on taking over the world, little cube by little cube. I will assemble an army of middle managers, their floppy midsections threatening the enemy, their blackberries beeping, hurling Sarbanes-Oxley heavy tomes towards the unsuspecting camps of the other band, unleashing the lawyers elite corps, the unthinkable horror, following with the heavy infantry of consultants, those mercenaries of the business world, and finally invading with the infantry, the poor canon fodder, the temps.