ABSTRACT
The art of war is about the spirited and moral powers, which means that it can never achieve the absolute and the certain. The exercising of power can serve to satisfy the pathological narcissism. Only through a dialogue-based process of reflection is it possible to succeed in overcoming the negative implications of individually subjective restrictions that result from universal human vulnerability and the similarly universal human desire for the compensatory exercising of power. The knowledge surrounding the fundamental vulnerability is therefore more important, in that, time and again, the strategic decisions of the management board take place under the insecurity of the future. Although fear belongs to the biological make up of humans, it is one of the most avoided taboos in business, especially when speaking to executives and managers. All managers have intuitively used the abilities of planning in order to provide themselves and their employees with the feeling of control, thereby reducing the fear that accompanies the future.
