CHAPTER 6

SCANNING FIREPOWER FOR EXTREME ATTACK AND HORIZON DEFENSE

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

—NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, French statesman and military leader

Throughout Part I, we discussed the Phoenix leader’s need for opposite debates and Proactive Scanning to seek firestorm ideas. In Part II, in the Encounter Battlefield phase, we take leaders through a range of scans, debates, and ideation—first wide, then deep. This is essential for generating a wide range of radical ideas—the firepower of Extreme Attack and Horizon Defense. In this sense, Chapters 6–12 will have a different tone and purpose for the reader than Part I. These chapters focus on ...

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