https://ceobootcamp.com/business-is-like-sex-not-sports-or-war/ Transform your Company in just 2 Hours a Week Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:21:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://ceobootcamp.com/business-is-like-sex-not-sports-or-war/#comment-33 Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:21:36 +0000 http://thesmallbusinesscoach.com/blog/2006/03/20/business-is-like-sex-not-sports-or-war/#comment-33 There are 2 aspects to the military analogy. One is that it’s war and the customer is the enemy. The other relates to the command and control structure. When technology made large companies practical the only large institutions to model were the church and the military (and the church had often commanded armies in the past). So in many ways the military command and control structure was adapted into companies. You might find more of this in some of Peter Drucker’s writings.

]]> https://ceobootcamp.com/business-is-like-sex-not-sports-or-war/#comment-32 Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:53:31 +0000 http://thesmallbusinesscoach.com/blog/2006/03/20/business-is-like-sex-not-sports-or-war/#comment-32 I am a post-grad student doing a dissertation on ” Is there any relevance of military strategy to business strategy and vice versa?” I am trying to locate the names of a few business strategists who believe “business is not war”. Can anyone help me by sending me a few names? Paul

]]> https://ceobootcamp.com/business-is-like-sex-not-sports-or-war/#comment-31 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:09:24 +0000 http://thesmallbusinesscoach.com/blog/2006/03/20/business-is-like-sex-not-sports-or-war/#comment-31 Some industries have developed their own vacuous catch phrases; check out the VC Cliché of the Week. Then there are endless sports and war analogies and other clichés that have spread horizontally across multiple segmentations of the business world.

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