Rating: Not rated
Tags: Non-Fiction, Human Science, Philosophy, Lang:en
Publisher: Feedbooks
Published: September 14, 2008
Added: September 7, 2019
Modified: September 7, 2019
Summary
Sigit Purwadi's
Library - The Art of War is a Chinese
military treatise that was written during the 6th century BC by
Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to
one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the
definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time.
The Art of War is one of the oldest books on military
strategy in the world. It is the first and one of the most
successful works on strategy and has had a huge influence on
Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, and
beyond. Sun Tzu was the first to recognize the importance of
positioning in strategy and that position is affected both by
objective conditions in the physical environment and the
subjective opinions of competitive actors in that environment.
He taught that strategy was not planning in the sense of
working through a to-do list, but rather that it requires quick
and appropriate responses to changing conditions. Planning
works in a controlled environment, but in a competitive
environment,