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Thought the original headline, "To Knock an Elephant Off Balance, Bring Out a Giant Blindfold", was a metaphor for taking down industry giants.

Nope. Just a how-to guide for making pachyderms horizontal.

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Taking into account the above account of balance as {inner ear, weight on feet, sight}, could it not be both? To knock an industry giant off balance, mess with its internal metrics and decision-makers, its sense of mass and 'which way is down', or its ability to see the outside world clearly (or only engage in places where it cannot see clearly).

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