August 10, 2006

Strategy cow

Johnnie Moore

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Having just posted about the value of doubt I have to point to the attractiveness of certainty… as embodied in the binary wisdom of Richard Huntington’s splendid strategy cow.

My eldest son has this toy. It is a cow (I think) which normally stands erect but when you push the base upwards it collapses. It perfectly describes how I feel when I come across lacklustre or cliched thinking – flacid, deflated and lacking in the strength to perform simple tasks like standing up properly.
From now on I will submit the strategies of the moment to the Strategy Cow for her to pass judgement.

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