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The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay

The Lost Book of Sales

Meetings proliferate and decisions are delayed. 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. In fact, he came to think that friction had to be worked with.