The Hedgehog and the Fox

According to John Gaddis, great grand strategists are both hedgehogs and foxes. A hedgehog knows one thing, a fox knows many things. A hedgehog has a vision. A hedgehog knows how to operate. A hedgehog sees True North. A fox knows that if you follow the compass you’ll hit a swamp. A fox knows that sometimes you have to paint the pear purple for it to show up as green on the canvas. Hedgehogs are notoriously bad at predicting the future, because they operate from deductive logic. Foxes are better underwriters, but they tend to be reactive. The fox specializes in what needs to get done, but not in knowing where it wants to go.

 
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