The boss must never be one desirous of picking a fight at any given opportunity. One should only fight when it is very necessary. Anyone you engage in a fight has become a bitter enemy. If an opponent cannot be defeated convincingly, then learn to live with him no matter how discomforting. If you must fight an opponent, then make sure the defeat is convincing, and do not end a fight on a compromise. Also be careful of opponents that are always eager for reconciliation in the midst of a fight. An enemy is more dangerous when he appears defeated... especially if he is a strong and bitter opponent. Any fight that the boss enters to is a fight that is necessary for him to win or there won’t be any more fights for him to redeem himself as he will be finished for good. So he must be prepared to win if he must fight. Napoleon never entered a fight that he did not have a 70 percent chance of winning as he knew the consequence of defeat to one so powerful. Remember what eventually happened to him when he miscalculated and was defeated at Waterloo? So victory is not all about strength. It is all about preparation. In normal day dealings, the man with more resources will be victorious over one with little means. But when a battle is declared, your resources do not matter much as your preparation. Your opponent’s finish line must be the start line for your preparation, if not it will be a fifty- fifty chance, and fifty- fifty chance fights always end in a compromise. Never enter a fight that will end in compromise: it will only lead to greater battles that you cannot handle in the future. The great Sun Tzu remarked that “your enemies want nothing but your failure, they desire nothing but your destruction. If in your fight with them you stop half way out of a feeling of compassion or desire for reconciliation it will only make them bitterer and one day they will seek their revenge”. If you must fight, then it must be the one you can win. There is more hope for a fool than for a boss who picks fights unnecessarily. Do not end a fight with an opponent on a compromise if it is within your power. But take it to a conclusion in your favour. When you inflict injury on a man you have inflicted injury on his pride. Pride is the milk of the spirit, anything that touches a mans pride injures his spirit and any form of defeat would destroy a mans pride; greatly humiliating him. Pretending to be death he will evoke sympathy or contest for a reconciliation, while all the while planning and waiting for the opportunity to avenge his humiliation; especially if he was a person of a strong standing. No one coming from a defeat bounces back to his former status without settling issues of his defeat. He has to remove the stain of humiliation before his authority is reasserted amongst his own people. By pretending to be defeated, he avoids a total collapse, and creates a breathing space to plan his revenge. A strong opponent is more dangerous when he pretends to be defeated than when he chooses to fight because he would come back twice more prepared. It is good that the boss is feared and it is also good that he is loved. To be one without the other is dangerous and none should be much greater than the other. As long as he maintains a strict disciplinary code of conduct and resist the temptation of dispossessing his men of their belongings, he will be feared and loved. But whatever is their feelings for him, it will be based on their own need for self preservation. So the boss should believe his subordinates when during times of peace they say they will die for his cause; they are thinking with their hearts. He should not be disappointed if they turned their backs on him in times of adversity; they are thinking with their heads GREAT AND INTERESTING LESSONS IN THE BOOK- THE LAWS OF THE BOSSES - ORDER A COPY FROM AMAZON.CO.UK OR PICK A COPY FROM LIFESTYLE MEDIA CENTRE SILVERBIRD ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE ABUJA
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