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107. Bullets Before Cannonballs & The 20-Mile March
Today on The Cutting Onions Podcast, Myles and I discuss two principles from Jim Collins’ excellent book, Great By Choice, published in 2012. Jim has a new book coming out on April 7th titled What To Make of A Life, and we can’t wait to get our hands on it!
In today’s conversation, we discussed firing bullets before cannonballs and the 20-mile march.
Bullets Before Cannonballs:
Imagine two ships trying to hit an enemy target.
One captain loads the cannon immediately and fires a massive cannonball.
Huge risk. Huge cost. Huge commitment.
But the other captain takes a different approach.
He…
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