FOCUS ON WHAT YOU COULD BE DOING

Late in the afternoon of May 6, 1864, Confederate General Jubal Early successfully attacked troops under the command of General John Sedgwick. During the night General Ulysses S. Grant was receiving reports about the "disaster" that had befallen Sedgwick, one of the Union generals expressed grave concerns that Confederate General Robert E. Lee would follow up on the Confederate success and move to cut off the Union army. Grant's response was:

"Some of you always seem to think he (Lee) is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go...and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do."

LESSON: It is important to think about what your competition may be planning and the impact that could have upon you, but it is even more important to be thinking about what you could be doing yourself.