About this Book

It is proposed in this book that the principles of Sun Tzu's art of war transcend the military context and offer the basis for an insight into the nature of modern business practices. In particular, and this is an underlying thesis, a study and understanding of Sun Tzu provides a valuable platform for exploring the exact nature of the analogy between business and war. It thus offers a pregnant framework for interpreting one of the most startling economic trends in the late 20th century: the relative decline of the U.S. economy versus the Japanese economy.