Avanza a pequeños mordiscos: Estrategia del hecho consumado

TAKE SMALL BITES
THE FAIT ACCOMPLI STRATEGY

If you seem too ambitious, you stir up resentment in
other people; overt power grabs and sharp rises to
the top are dangerous, creating envy, distrust, and
suspicion. Often the best solution is to take small
bites, swallow little territories, playing upon people's
relatively short attention spans. Stay under the radar
and they won't see your moves. And if they do, it
may already be too late; the territory is yours, a fait
accompli. You can always claim you acted out of
self-defense. Before people realize it, you have
accumulated an empire.
Robert Greene


Chien/Development (Gradual Progress)
This hexagram is made up of Sun (wood,
penetration) above, i.e., without, and Ken
(mountain, stillness) below, i.e., within. A tree on
a mountain develops slowly according to the law
of its being and consequently stands firmly
rooted. This gives the idea of a development
that proceeds gradually, step by step. The
attributes of the trigrams also point to this: within
is tranquility, which guards against precipitate
actions, and without is penetration, which makes
development and progress possible.
THE I CHING, CHINA, CIRCA EIGHTH
CENTURY B.C.