Listen "Sun Tzu's The Art of War"
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Unpack Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Master timeless strategies for conflict and competition. Learn to win without fighting, leverage deception, and understand ultimate victory. Essential for any strategic thinker.Works CitedCartwright, Mark. "Ancient Chinese Warfare." World History Encyclopedia, 7 Nov. 2017, www.worldhistory.org/Chinese_Warfare/.Cartwright, Mark. "Warring States Period." World History Encyclopedia, 12 Jul. 2017, www.worldhistory.org/Warring_States_Period/."Demystifying The Art of War—No philosophical treatise, this classic offers practical advice for anyone engaged in conflict." Contingencies, Jan./Feb. 2019."5 Principles From Sun Tzu's The Art Of War Relevant To Startups." Forbes. Accessed 24 May 2024.Fraser, Chris. "Mohism." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1 Sept. 2024, plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2024/entries/mohism/."Intelligence Acquisition in Early China1." Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 60-75.Iphikrates. "Who was Sun Tzu writing for? Given that Art of War gives strategic principles in what are necessarily adversarial circumstances, how did it become widely circulated? Would that not have been disadvantageous to those who inherited his advice? : r/AskHistorians." Reddit, Accessed 24 May 2024.Jessee, Devin Duke. "STRATAGEM IN ASYMMETRY: NONSTATE ARMED GROUPS’ USE OF DECEPTION." The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 2011. PhD dissertation."Just Read 'The Art Of War' by Sun Tzu (Yeah, it's unparalleled) : r/books." Reddit, Accessed 24 May 2024."LEGALISM AND HUANG-LAO THOUGHT." CHINATXT, pp. 17, 23."Legalism (Chinese philosophy)." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Accessed 24 May 2024."Management in times of change: lessons from The Art of War." London Business School, 2025."Mastering War in Business: Strategic Insights from Sun Tzu." Asymmetric Marketing. Accessed 24 May 2024.Monkhouse, Dominic. "The Art of War: Bollocks or Brilliance?" Dominic Monkhouse. Accessed 24 May 2024.Ngai, Tingchun. "The Debates on Human Nature and Political Governance in Ancient China: Mencius, Xunzi and Han Feizi." Open Access Library Journal, vol. 6, 29 Apr. 2019, p. e5369. Open Access Library Inc., doi:10.4236/oalib.1105369.Pressel, Andria. "Taoism & Confucianism in Chinese Warfare." TheCollector. Accessed 24 May 2024.save_the_last_dance. "save_the_last_dance discusses why sun tzu's "art of war" is not applicable when discussing business strategy and how its teachings are outdated : r/bestof." Reddit, Accessed 24 May 2024."10 Executive Marketing Lessons from Sun Tzu's The Art of War." Social Media Today, Industry Dive, 2025.Sun Tzu. The Art of War. Translated by Lionel Giles, Project Gutenberg, 1994.Sun Tzu. The Art of War: Complete Texts and Commentaries. Translated by Thomas Cleary, Shambhala Publications, 2011.
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