Pierde batallas, pero gana la Guerra: la Gran Estrategia

LOSE BATTLES BUT WIN THE WAR
GRAND STRATEGY

Everyone around you is a strategist angling for
power, all trying to promote their own interests, often
at your expense. Your daily battles with them make
you lose sight of the only thing that really matters:
victory in the end, the achievement of greater goals,
lasting power. Grand strategy is the art of looking
beyond the battle and calculating ahead. It requires
that you focus on your ultimate goal and plot to
reach it. In grand strategy you consider the political
ramifications and long-term consequences of what
you do. Instead of reacting emotionally to people,
you take control, and make your actions more
dimensional, subtle, and effective. Let others get
caught up in the twists and turns of the battle,
relishing their little victories. Grand strategy will bring
you the ultimate reward: the last laugh.
Robert Greene

THE FOX AND THE MONKEY ELECTED KING
The monkey, having danced in an assembly of
the animals and earned their approval, was
elected by them to be king. The fox was jealous.
So, seeing a piece of meat one day in a snare,
he led the monkey to it, saying that he had
found a treasure. But rather than take it for
himself, he had kept guard over it, as its
possession was surely a prerogative of royalty.
The fox then urged him to take it.
The monkey approached it, taking no care, and
was caught in the trap. When he accused the
fox of luring him into a trap, the fox replied:
"Monkey, you want to reign over all the animals,
but look what a fool you are!" It is thus that those
who throw themselves into an enterprise without
sufficient thought not only fail, but even become
a laughing stock.

FABLES, AESOP, SIXTH CENTURY B.C.