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    I.13 — The Two-King Problem: The Fatal Cost of a Divided Throne

    “The same attribute cannot at the same time belong and not belong to the same subject in the same respect.” — Aristotle Most organisations know they should not operate without a strategy. Fewer recognise the subtler and more fatal trap: holding two strategies that contradict each other, and refusing to choose between them. Call it…