Burn Bridges
This is a leadership lesson Sun Tsu’s Art of War style:
Sometimes you just have to break things and burn things down to get people where they need to go.
Have you ever had someone tell you that you shouldn’t burn bridges? Me too. It is good advice…sometimes. In the case of mission, sometimes you just have to grow a backbone and leave yourself with no exit plan. When you’re backed into a corner, you have to fight because there is only one way out.
Tactically, you shouldn’t position an army between your enemy and a body of water (river, lake, or ocean). In the event of a retreat, you’re in mega trouble. But, sometimes there are more important things than survival.
Counter-intuitive lesson to be learned? Provide no way of retreat and people must move forward.
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