Tag: Strategy That Lasts
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Shaping the Battlefield: Sun Tzu on Positioning Before Competition
Sun Tzu’s most underappreciated concept is shih (势) — the potential energy of a chosen position. The decisive act in strategy isn’t the fight, it’s the positioning that makes the fight unwinnable for the other side.
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Know Before You Move: Sun Tzu’s Intelligence Doctrine
Sun Tzu’s Chapter XIII is a 2,500-year-old empirical claim: foreknowledge cannot be deduced from inside the room. Most companies still get this wrong — and the failure rates are measurable.