If you are reading this you are wordering what I mean by all business is war business. Well when you are in business you need to be serious about the business and if you are serious you need to treat your business as though it is a matter of life and death. You need to make sure you are as engaged as possible and you have to remember that if you let your guard down for even a minuite, you will lose property or ground or position. Any steps you take that is not considered a forward move needs to be eleminated or reduced. General Grant felt that he did not want to ever lose ground and that even if the position of his forces required a back tracking of some sort to reposition his troops, he would find a way to keep from having to recross previously covered groud. This is one of the keys to a sucessful business, you must endevor to always be moving forward and never recross ground. The recrossing of ground should be avoided at all cost. When you don't learn from your mistakes or make the same mistakes again and again then you are losing the advantage of agressive battlefield positioning