| Russia and The art of problem solving. |
[Nov. 25th, 2003|04:44 pm] |
Andy Grove. Only the paranoid survive.
First, figure out who your key competitor is by asking a hypothetical question that I call the "silver bullet" test. It works like this: if you had just one bullet in a figurative pistol, whom among your many competitors would you save it for?
When the answer to this question stops being as crystal clear as it used to be and some of your people direct the silver bullet to competitors who didn't merit this kind of attention previously, it's time to sit up and pay special attention. When the importance of your competitors shifts, it is often a sign that something significant is going on.
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My feeling is that the vast majority in the Russian political establishement has not got it into their brains that China is their new competition, not the US. Having a former KGB officer at the top doesn't really help. |
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