Sun Tzu's The Art of War | Overview & Summary

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"2 is 1. 1 is none. None is all. All is one."

-Sun Tzu Art of War

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

Note: while the general advice he gives is good, war in his time was far different from todays war, completely ignore the part about supply, modern armies require constant resupply because unlike in acient times wars were usually won in one battle. Modern wars are not. And modern armies require FAR more supply seeing as they need far more than food and arrows, they need various different types of ammo, food, fuel for vehicles, etc. Also the idea that its strategy who wins wars is...i don't want to call it dumb, it still has merit but what i do call stupid is the idea that technically doesn’t win wars. Not even the greatest general could lead a roman legion to victory against a marine battalion. That is exaggerated to make it easier to understand but it gives the idea that it only applys to vast differences but on the modern battlefield even the seemingly small advantages will be in reality huge advantages, the classic exemple is desert storm. Iraq had one of the largest armies in the world however they fell a less than a weak, part because their wepons, tho numerous, were much more simple and less advanced. They lost 3000 tanks. America lost 9, 7 of which to friendly tire. Technology most certainly can and has won wars. (Note(again): this is specifically talking about conventional war)

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I can’t get past all of the Chinese names. It’s like reading numbers in the Bible.

The Art of War is actually a mandatory subject taught at all US military academies. It's not only applicable to business but also in sports, politics, and even in online multiplayer games too.

If you want wn example, here's one. During the Democrat primary election campaign of 2008, Obama targeted states with lower electoral college which were numerous while all his opponents were too busy taking a long time securing votes in states with large electoral votes. This is an example of Sun Tzu's teaching where he says 'Avoid what is strong. Attack what is weak...' .

The best battle to win is called the ultimatum. The ultimatum is unto the leader, followers are there to observe. In leadership there are two things to consider, essentially "Who am I and what do I want?" In case you need an enemy, naturally, you are chosen one.

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“The naked man fears no pickpocket”

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I started implementing Sun Tzu principles at work and I’ve been unstoppable since then

Listening to this quick summary (having read the full book twice over the last 20 years but not with application in mind), suddenly, all the metaphors as applied to an unfair office situation confronting me for years become crystal clear - the metaphors are finally elucidated, even though I'm just about to the leave the job. A critical "battle" awaits and I know how to avoid it and get the best victory possible in the situation.  Hint: troops and defenses can equal personal allies or sympathizers or different project areas, different job duties in your overall portfolio of duties or special projects,  and their corresponding corroborators and their relationship to your defense or influence with key evaluators. The size of forces may be impact of given work product on supervisor versus the time it takes, or the impact of a certain work product to a key courted ally outside of and even above your supervisor's orbit, but at the potential expense to the goals of your supervisor who can cut your legs out from under you in a prestige war. Strategic ground can be the time approaching a deadline and the relative wiggle room afforded a delay. The long game is actually easier than the short game because one can slowly reverse the periphery of influence around the power suppressing you by courting rapport from key indirect vectors of support that can can then counter an anticipated calumny campaign by your super who is trying to cut the tallest flower and prove superiority or justify their value added contribution even if you know more and deliver a superior product. The short game is much harder to win. The strength of a particular collaboration, or party that can exercise oversight against your enemy can be co-opted by your enemy but that cooptation can be overcome by indirect means. Fighting asymmetrically as all subordinates must, requires far more energy and time than otherwise but developing iron discipline can yield eventual triumph bc you can use weekends or nights to anticipate attacks through ongoing documentation of all you do in each job area and an anticipation of likely unfair criticisms you can preempt or counter. Knowing one's own weaknesses well can help you vitally choose battles, not fight a battle directly (say for fair appraisal of a particular contribution that's ignored or misevaluated even if incredible), make a wise TIME investment based on covering key coming vulnerability before they leave you wide open for defeat, or recovering from a past miscalculation and then slowly pivoting round back to your original contribution so that its glory is repurposed and adapted to serve a new situation, perhaps to a new audience or perhaps in a different project that serves a better interest of the super. Choosing the battle, appraising the strength of forces within your own portfolio of abilities and achievements, within your super's array of tools (and propensities) to suppress, slander, isolate, bog, exclude, misappraise, deceive, bamboozle, demoralize, or otherwise mistreat, contain, appropriate or undermine you or your ideas will help you know what is winnable and what is not in WHAT TIME FRAME.

Some strategies to avoid defeat and ensure victory in a mounting workplace battle:

The following give you a LOT of the material necessary to counter a surprise attack, to choose which battle to skip, wage, delay or capitulate to in order to obtain the greatest realistic gain the rival(s) and situation are likely to afford. 

Make a careful habit ASAP to constantly read, TRACK (in a document or folder so you can see the signs accumulate over time and not be left with a strong impression that's short on facts despite many facts having transpired) all the subtle hints of disapproval, circumvention, dismissal, diminishment, misrepresentation, strategic omission, isolation from outside observers or collaborators, the use of unequal yardsticks, sabotage, derision, and coldness. Note these hints and acts in short bullets each day.  It is especially important to document outright bullies in written notes upon each instance. You'll be impressed at what eventually coagulates. Note also what conspicuously is NOT said vesus what is shown to others, what is given or conferred to even underperforming coworkers or colleagues, including shows of relaxedness, humor, leniency, praise or friendliness, but which is distinctly withheld from you for no reason or BECAUSE you did your job well whereas the sycophant or clique member did not.

Observe like a hawk and TRACK in Writing to yourself referencing emails or e-messages/texts that evince key flip flops, shifts of direction, preference contradictions, changes of evaluation parameters or evaluations, the summary of facts or enacted examples. While very hard to habitually instill and sustain, organized,  omgoing, documented lists of contradictions by your enemies and clear, documented consistency by yourself can unravel and unlock the snares of saboteurs, maligners, two-faced liars, nasty excluders, bullies and pathetically, maliciously envious knaves who cut you down for through the roof accomplishments, even though you never wanted to steal any of their rep or credit, never aimed to apply for a rival post, take them down, etc.

The threat your honest, hardwon and even unambiguous achievements pose that is so easy to overlook is that they can make the rival or super's own work, knowledge, output, accuracy, etc. appear mediocre, incompetent, or a downright liability by comparison. Especially those with asymmetric decision power or ally networks will quickly move to contain, constantly undermine, demoralize, ignore and berate you even if you can prove that the claims are meritless. That's the threat you pose. Act in awareness of this fact. But if you must act against this awareness:

Constantly cover your tracks against their self-serving treachery by carefully wording emails far ahead of time, far before they expect that you're onto them that, by being specific and NOT using pronouns like "it" or "the thing we discussed" to preempt future distortion or claims against you and the documented record of your work, and carefully amassing the time stamped,  long term record that shows you reporting the duties you discharged, that proves you got approval for courses of action taken, for tasks undertaken, etc.,

If you have time, start as soon as possible at making a circle of allies OUTSIDE OF and unknown to or unaffected by the cohort of enemies or rivals. Do a nice thing for someone you know your super or rival has tried to poison falsely against you but that they don't know that you are aware of. Watch who is buddy buddy with your rival and always do good by them and anyone else to be beyond the scope of their trap. The links outside the containment and defamation campaign is crucial and if it can't be done at work, try to do it outside work and take a new job.  However, it might very well be more doable at work than you think by pursuing unexpected links that YOUR RIVALS DO NOT KNOW OF like a request for an informational interview  over lunch OFF SITE of an employee in a different division that isn't buddy buddy with your enemy or super or isn't likely to bring it up, or IS, depending on your desired effect.

Tip: be real enough to be personable but do not reveal strategic vulnerabilities in any more detail than absolutely necessary even to workplace allies, let alone a known naysayer, super or rival who has in any way shown a propensity to cut you down, marginalize, misrepresent, stifle, exploit, conspicuously marginalize, avoid or otherwise do bad to you.  You can draw them close if they are able to be drawn in, but leave the crown jewels (medical deets, divorce, problems with kids, past adversity at other workplaces, etc. locked in the vault) unless disclosure proves vitally necessary and even then don't give away more lurid detail than you must.

HOWEVER, BEST TIP: even if you make mistakes, break all the rules of power, disclose waay too much, undermine yourself unfairly out of brow-beaten servility, beat a dead horse that the rival can use to pigeonhole, disregard or embarrass you with, leave yourself wide open for attack by failing to document good work, follow through, consent granted verbally but not in writing and later denied by enemy or super in a lie or "forgetfulness", etc... all those things may STILL be rectified and overcome simply by not repeating the same errors, playing the long game, being reliable, consistent, doing all key work your enemy is sniffing for, and anticipating the likely tricks and reactions to the enemy's future efforts and acting in advance to immunitize yourself from them with documentation, allies, a READY Resume, ongoing trainings if you have time.

Unlike Machiavelli, the Art of War shows us that there is QUITE a lot at stake in losing and that foregoing potential, even deserved gain when reason, the careful record of indirect indicators, and field info. all show that defeat is highly likely, esp. in an asymmetric struggle, is sometimes well worth it.  It's not "sit down and shut up while flames devour the palace" advice, but, rather, "avoid the fire in your bolt to greener pastures" advice. Even if your own blunders cost you the castle, don't lose the cottage also! Avoiding great harm or long term containment is better than gaining a modest and immediate victory like a pressure-extracted acknowledgment of your correctness or merit on a task or project you know you can prove was rated unfairly in a way that could force acknowledgment, all to forego a much needed later recommendation, or even noninterference with an advancement elsewhere, had you simply rolled with the uncomfortable punches.

Sun Tzu is stating the obvious, "If the enemy is bigger, escape" .. then what about strategy, tactics and training? Purpose? Morals? that's superfacial and not realistic.

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They mentioned "not wasting your own resources" and my question is: are humans resources? and if yes at what point does morality kick in where you say "its wrong to use humans (for example: boys, women, children: in exploitation, sexually or as criminal puppets, to make money) as objects for my benefit/resources".

Is there any morality when in war? Is morality AND the lack of morality part of the reason for the war OR is the war strictly about taking any and all tangible and potential resources/treasures of value?

I guess my question is are there moral wars or is war mostly always about taking tangible resources of your so called "enemy". Because honestly if you're AS amoral as your enemy - are they really your enemy or are you simply competitors fighting for the same resources.

Does my question make sense?

I feel like some major businesses need to touch up in the Art of War. Though I see people enacting smaller strategies in friend groups and smaller congregations all the time.

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Sun Tzu's art of war is about overwhelming the enemy with tactics and strategy based in proper assessment of enemy strength and weaknesses but a defeated enemy according to Sun Tzu were given a way to escape the onslaught. Don't know if China still apply that war principle or not. The Western way of war is the connectivity of systems of war and equipments of war using them either simultaneously "AirSeaBattle" or selectively by strategies and tactics. The Russian way of war is by degrading the enemy of monitoring eyes from Space, from Air, from the Seas, and from the ground or anti- system battle approach which is not yet fully unveiled by Russia in a full scale war. The way the women wage war is by using social verbal attacks or by using embarrassing statements against their opponents or by spying on you or by no talk on you style " dedma" in Tagalog as opposite to men's style using confrontations, bullying or physical attacks. That was before, I think now with the presence of gays and lesbians things were reversed, inversed or mixed up. What the

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WAR is A GAME of RICH LEADERS !

Russia is ignoring these principles, but China has not forgotten, it seems. Beware the east.

Sun Tzu never went to war.

This book was written and approved by the Jesuit General. This is how they have destroyed Christian Protestantism. This took centuries to make it happen. The Jesuits now rule the world.

Putin obviously never got that book for Xmas.

To make it modern, one should add; " One must know that he is actually in a war. "

Sounds like Russia should require reading this considering how many of these precepts they are neglecting.

Your opponent also thinking why listen to this man. They lost in the end. where are they now?

The last situation in chapter 9 is often called:
Dying Ground 🪓

Managing this situation well is both art and skill.
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Určitě se tam někde mluví o tom, jak dělat ze všech jenom čůráky a od rána do večera někomu někomu komplikovat a poté toho využívat k diskreditaci nasraneho jednotlivce?!


Jste jenom ubohej odpad společnosti... Všichni do jednoho!!!

A to že ty naivky z POC jsou paranoidní jako ten curak z PB a myslí si, že mluvím o nich, to jenom definuje dobu....

Všichni si myslí bůhví jak nejsou důležitý a při tom je realita zcela opačná!

Sun Tzu 😎: Reward your generals and spies handsomely, and set up a rewards program for the troops.

# Time tested advice for many areas, including both war and business.

Great summary! I’ve read the full book thrice and I can truly say this summary covers everything in the book

Video ruined when you showed the white man saying what he thought it said and meant. Whites have zero credibility.