It is a cliché, and a bad one, that generals try to “fight the last war”—that is, do what worked the last time out. That does not give them enough credit. Rather, they tend to fight the war they would like to fight or the one that they expected to fight. But neither of those responses is usually sufficient.
My career transition from Amazon Consumer Finance to AWS finance. LT is ‘fighting the last war’ I.e. using strategies that were once helpful in a certain context within a new environment.
