Business Tactic: The Trench Rush

January 17, 2006 on 7:39 pm | In Islam, Islamic Work, Sahaba
| By Ilm Seeker

In one of the battles in the time of the Khulafa Rashideen, the Muslim armies attacked a fort behind a trench.

With a trench, defenses spread thin: 500 people need to guard all points of the trench. So in any given area, you have only a few guards.

How did the Muslims succeed? They find the one lazy guy--if the trench is eight feet deep and six feet across, they find the location two feet deep and one foot across--and focus the entire army towards that one location, all the hundreds or thousands of mujahideen.

Three men cannot stand up to that kind of onslaught.

The "cut-throat corporate world" employs this technique as well. Learn from it. Benefit from it.

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