Volume 3 · The Corner Cabin · Essay 25
Ambidextrous Strategy
A method is a promise: do these steps and something improves. Ambidextrous Strategy keeps its promise if you keep yours.
Try it for a fortnight before judging it. Most methods die in the court of first impressions, which is the least competent court there is.
The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.
A joint family runs on unspoken job descriptions. The day someone writes them down, half the quarrels lose their employment.
An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. Carry it lightly. Ideas, like umbrellas, are useful only when actually opened.