The Grand-Strategy of the Giant Sequoias: Lessons for Unipoles and Patient Investors

The immense tree quivered like one in agony, and with a crushing, raging, deafening sound it fell, … breaking into a million pieces.

Eyewitness to the fall of a giant sequoia, 1893.

I stood at General Sherman’s ankle—he is the largest known living organism and one of the oldest—and contemplated a question I was asked long ago by a somewhat philosophical …