Change Is Guerilla Warfare

Daylights savings, a new place for dinner tonight, a new start time, new restrictions, a new marketing plan, a new brand a of soap, a new medication.

We are always dealing with some sort of new change, a new circumstance or decision. Change is not new – we usually dread change because we are uncomfortable with the new “whatever” and we know that we often become paralyzed at having to deal with the new.

There are books about getting your set right in the head, in order to actual deal with the change, however we need to address today the actual actions of dealing with change.

For those changes that have minimal impact on ourselves and our circumstance, relatively little attention is require. This is frankly because, there is little impact from a poor or unexpected decision or result. Having to change to a new brand of soap, will not necessarily kill you (although I recognize that there are serious allergies that must be accounted for), however spending a million dollar budget on a marketing initiative or venture capital opportunity, can have a major and catastrophically impact on you personally.

How we carry out a change as much to do with guerilla warfare. Learning from the many thousands of writing from

Single Shot Versus Automatic

participating soldiers who have lived and breathed the intensity of the hidden battle, the unknown circumstances and absolute results, we can learn a bit about change and how to approach change.

In the bush of Vietnam or the Congo or any part of South America, the ability to see is extremely challenging. Knowing where you are can be difficult and knowing where the enemy is, can be even more.

Your position, unknown or known, is excruciatingly crucial when managing the situation. You need to determine, through very few decisions and very short distances, where you are in order to determine where you need to go in order to accomplish your mission. After all, in the thick vegetation of bamboo shoots and banana leaves can come close to blocking out the sun and making your days into evenings. Your position has to only be known by you and should be kept to your team at extreme measure. Giving up your position to a nearby enemy, with all of the unknowns puts you in a very precarious position.

The tactics of how you carry out the engaging of you enemy must be kept secret, even amidst a gun fight. Unlike other battlefields, there is a simple procedure in gun fighting that allows you to remain in stealth mode, to a large degree.

NEVER BE ON AUTOMATIC.

A gun set to automatic will unload ammunition until it is exhausted. The wasting of bullets is certainly not the concern, in fact, isn’t really a consideration. The efficiency is usually not something modern warfare is concerned with (to a degree of course, but running out of bullets is not an initial pressure).

Single shooting is what we need. A single accurate shot, when unaware, can be performed without disclosing your position. Often the enemy will never see the shot and will have to rely on limited sensory in order to hope to find a clue.

The single shot approach allows the soldier to repeatedly change position and adjust while keeping his target relatively still and stable.

When approaching a consequential change, taking single shots and measuring the impact enables a very clear rode map. The execution and measurement allow adjustments for the second shot. This intern, with measurements allow for a third shot and so on.

The single shot and then measurement will always allow you the opportunity to make known adjustments. When multiple shots are fired simultaneously, this opportunity to measure accurately is dissolved to a large degree. Your measurement is unclear in determining which “bullet” caused which affect in your measurement.

Some times time itself is a fact and may require you to abbreviate you measurement but should never allow you to disregard the single shot policy. Even if you single shot is your business plan, there are and you should expect changes that need to be made. Zoning in on the shot that fired the result can allow you to find the adjustments you need to make. Also the shots themselves can help you assess whether a previous effort was actually a result of a previous shot or not.

Be tactical. Automatic firing will never deliver automatic results. There simply aren’t options that delivery autonomous success.