Excerpt:  Strategy & Religion, part one

The topic of religion takes us in a new direction.  Of time and place.  Of beauty and sadness.  Of the exercise of power, by the state and by others.  Of the authority of truth, from scientific principles and from others.  Of what we can prove and what we can’t prove.  Of spirituality and faith.

Of a world of questions, some answered, some not.  All of interest to strategists trying to make sense out of that world.

Questions such as:  which came first – the chicken, or the egg?  Many have scratched their heads endlessly over this paradox.  And in no field of human endeavour has this question more importance than that of religion.

How, and why, did religions come into being?  And what strategic lessons can we learn from those religions that have survived the tests of time?...