Decorations

You as CEO will have to determine what significance your corp gives to decorations.

I would argue that these are one of the most potent tools we have available to us as leaders as long as they are handled in a certain way.

No offense, but the essence of your guide is that you're a self-centered idiot without a clue about the actual game.

Also let me tell you about people citing Sun Tzu in Eve...

Sigh.

Taking your guide seriously. I'm going to disagree with 1 and 2.

1. Should be the ability to actually lead. You can have all the Charisma you want, but if you can't lead a thirsty horse to water, you shouldn't be in leadership. Charisma is imp in recruiting. It's imp in herding cats.

2. Delegating is imp. But this is eve, you will end up doing a lot of stuff yourself until trust develops.

This is just your first paragraph.

Ok the struggle with yourself is a good start. However, people in Eve have made good careers as Ceo's as dictatorial yahoo's. Don't discount that. I don't' think it lends itself to a close knit corp mind you. But it is a style of leading that works as well. Ahh I see you covered it in machiavelli. Decent start.

I would edit your technocrat manual to cover the two style. leading out of love, and leading out of fear.

Put the know yourself Paragraph at the top. It makes the most sense, and shouldn't be toward the end. The other stuff under that useful info, that can be debated.

cool Story

-10/10

I started reading that, then I started hearing the sounds of coconuts banged together, to immitate horses, like in that Monty Python movie. You dig?

Now I'm eating sugar straight from the bowl.

You stop just as its getting interesting.

I didn't. However I quickly realized that you were trying to mirror Mittens' tentonhammer articles in style, just lacking all the esprit and wit that makes his wall of texts - even the bullshit parts - entertaining reads. Thus I decided to go for the original once I felt my yawns/minute rate excessivly rising.

Too many words...

if I read all of that can I be alliance leader, with thousands in my corp?

how does..... the monocle play into this?

Horrible or Wonderful Either Way This Is True for an Effective EVE Corp

And now the hideous truth. The moment when you, as uneasy as Blackbeard's eighth wife, slip that key out of the drawer you aren't supposed to and unlock that door. I've been there. Its all going well. Too well. You and your new corp have gotten through the honeymoon but are still having sex almost every day. You're relaxing. its happening. Its just..... That door. You trust your new spouse, oh certainly beyond a shadow of a whisper of a 151 KM warp to point's worth of doubt you do trust your newly betrothed and beloved or why would you have married them in the first place. Its just.....

That door.

So you open the fracking thing and after you do you almost wish it was seven heads on spikes with yawning jaws and maggots in their eyes because what's there is so much worse what's there are...

Spreadsheets.

There is no escape from them. Once your corp or alliance gets beyond a certain point you will need them. It is hard to tell when that point is because something will eat away at you like the thought of the key does Blackbeard's bride. And when you finally realize what it is, you, like all of us, will find spreadsheets.

I recommend a complete and total capitulation before the vastly superior force of necessity. (Sometimes simple surrender serves you best my friend.) In order to do so, just open a google docs account. (I said I never would and I did.) You can assign access to documents including spreadsheets to your officers. The horror. The horror.

Or you could just recruit an organized person who actually ENJOYS spreadsheets. They are out there, and even more easy to find in Eve.

If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I should say: "Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will." Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.
- Sun Tzu

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.
- Sun Tzu

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
- Sun Tzu

Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.
- Sun Tzu

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation. Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.
- Sun Tzu

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical. If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content.
- Sun Tzu

No leader should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no leader should fight a battle simply out of pique. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened leader is heedful, and the good leader full of caution.
- Sun Tzu quotes

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports; (4) Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of warfare; (5) If a secret piece of news is divulged by a spy before the time is ripe, he must be put to death together with the man to whom the secret was told.
- Sun Tzu quotes

The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become double agents and available for our service. It is through the information brought by the double agent that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies. It is owing to his information, again, that we can cause the doomed spy to carry false tidings to the enemy.
- Sun Tzu quotes

"To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence."
- Sun Tzu quotes

Well, of course. But spreadsheets are like lies. Once used they have to be tended to.....

with a wink

PA

People walk up to me in the street.

If you are careful of your men, and camp on hard ground, the army will be free from disease of every kind, and this will spell victory. GÇöSun Tzu's Art of War, ss. 9.12: The Army on the March

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