PRINCIPLES: EMPIRE
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Consolidate the gain
Connect people and resources
Turn a win into durable capacity
Let patience protect the result
Visual interpretation: A brilliant burst creates one useful invention, then patient builders add support, documentation and relationships around it so it stays useful after the spark fades. A river flowing steadily around a boulder is a small echo, not the entire design.
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