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The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay

The Lost Book of Sales

Clausewitz (Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general) believed that friction was as inherent to war as it is to mechanical engineering and could therefore never be eliminated but only mitigated. We have limited knowledge about the present and the future is fundamentally unknowable. Yet they continually fail in that pursuit.