Clausewitz, Carl Philipp Gottlieb von

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Prussian officer and military theorist whose major work Vom Kriege/On War (posthumously published in 1832) revolutionized military, and later business, strategists. His famous theory of conflict is that war is an extension of political policy by other means and therefore not an end in itself. Clausewitz's ideas have been enthusiastically adopted by modern business strategists. In Clausewitz's terms, business is a civilized version of war in which companies, not nations, compete against each other.

Clausewitz believed that war was about beating the opposition through the concentration of force against decisive points (total war) using all available resources. The ultimate aim (in business or war) was to improve performance by having better intelligence than a rival and relying on sound analysis of that information to take decisive action.

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