The book is wry, and full of wisdom, completely applicable to the tech startup world, such as Sir Alex's advice on identifying, developing, and managing talent, and measuring people.
What works as "good business discipline and wisdom" should be applicable everywhere, right?
The technical equipment (for example, radar and rainfall gauges) detects a hazard and issues warnings to vulnerable people, who are not viewed as being supplied with information and knowledge, or endowed with applicable wisdom.
There are often opportunities to learn great business lessons from applicable wisdom that comes from outside business.
Yoga may be an ancient practice, but Desikachar shows how this wisdom is vitally applicable in our world". "Foods That Heal," by Maureen Salaman (MKS).
Surely this wisdom is more generally applicable?
Well, at least we know that the most popular question on Quora is "What is the most useful, shortest and most generally applicable piece of wisdom you know?" to which the top answer is "Always improve" or "Breathe" depending on what you're looking for.
Jobs, the Apple visionary who died in 2011 at age 56, delivered a speech that resonated far beyond the Stanford audience, with a masterful mix of personal anecdotes, sparks of insight and universally applicable pieces of wisdom.
While strategy certainly has its role in warfare, and while there is a lot of wisdom in military works about strategy which is applicable in today's organizations, the warfare connotation of the word strategy is misleading for five reasons.
