Place of Publication: Oxford University Press
Number of pages: 40
Year of Publication: 2000
A great piece of writing, considered a manual that exemplifies the Chinese art of war, which is used by large businesses and companies. Let's say it would be one of the ways to fight: against the competition and against the market. But it is also useful for daily life, to overcome fears, feats, among many other things.
Keywords: War, Chinese, Art, Business, Daily life, science.
Great writing, considered manual cites the Chinese art of war, with which they are big business and companies. Let's say it one way to fight: against competition and against the market. But it also serves to daily life, to overcome fears, exploits, among other things.
Keywords: War, Chinese, Art, Business, Daily life, Science
Sun Tzu was a Chinese general and strategist who lived around the 5th century BC. His collection of writings is the oldest legacy on strategy in battle and warfare. Despite its antiquity, Sun Tzu's advice is still relevant not only in terms of warfare, but is also used by large companies and individuals in their daily lives.
More than two thousand years ago, a Chinese general named Sun Tzu wrote one of the great classics of military strategy: The Art of War.
This book shows how the general's strategic principles can be applied to business situations. Besides there is too much similarity between the battlefield and the business world, hence some corporate phrases such as attack, ambush, no man's land or guerrilla.
In addition, when they are successful they are compared by this: careful preparation, speed, use of resources where they generate the greatest impact, mobility, flexibility, and firmness.
General Sun Tzu's work is not only a military book, but a treatise that teaches strategy wisely applied to human nature in times of conflict. In other words, a work to understand the roots of a conflict and seek a solution.
It is important for everyone to be able to impose their will on another, either through diplomacy or, once that fails, through war. War is a matter of more importance to countries, something for which they must be prepared. Sun Tzu's study or analysis of war was possibly the first reference to planning and executing moves in an organized and bold manner and used by rulers and generals to try to succeed in the attempt to impose their military will on the other. War is considered the best form of violence and suffering towards the enemy, for Sun Tzu it is more important to beat the enemy "without openly fighting" with him, attacking his will and knowing him very well, to find his weaknesses and take advantage of them, managing to attack specific points without inflicting more damage than necessary and obtain victory.
War allows the survival of a state. An analysis must be made from both sides, contemplating the following factors: morale, climate, terrain, command and doctrine. This allows in a certain way to determine the course of the confrontation, the one that manages or dominates them is the one that will have greater possibilities of winning and the one that does not, is the one that will have more possibilities of suffering a defeat.
The agility of the maneuver, the speed to attack the enemy's vulnerabilities, is necessary to end the confrontation as quickly as possible, prolonged conflicts do not produce any benefit. To be able to achieve this as we know requires total knowledge of the enemy, visualization from both sides to be able to act, but something very important to ensure that the attack will have the expected success is the ability to induce the enemy to a disadvantageous position, which is facilitated by deception.
This is a very interesting book for me as I am a lover of military strategy, I assume it was aimed at the Chinese military and politicians, with such success that throughout history it has established a particular way of thinking about war, a philosophy to lead in combat, but not only in combat as it has been used as policy in corporations of great worldwide success.
It has been a long time since it was written, and it is still used as a reference, to be taught in the classrooms of military institutes and universities, as a key element for the leadership of troops, armies and even companies. And it will certainly continue to be important and therefore applicable in the future.
The conduct of war is fundamentally a process of human competition, requiring the knowledge of science and the creativity of art, but ultimately dominated by the power of the human will. Besides, without war there would be no peace.
And as Julius Caesar once said: "Si vis pacem, para bellum" or "If you want peace, prepare for war".
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