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Article Check - Sun Zi Art of War - Pre-empting Rival's Strategies
Do you dream about being able to stay at home with your kids? You don't want to put your kids in day care anymore. You don't want to work just to earn enough money to pay the daycare fee. Well, you might be ready to try to find and realize some small business ideas. There are many things that you can do as a work at home mom or dad.Here's some of the benefits of working from home:The most obvious benefit is that you can spend more time at home, which will allow you to be with your kids and to see them grow up.Just imagine yourself stay with them whenever they are home sick from school. And wouldn't it be nice if you were there to here your kids first words instead of the babysitter? Being able to be there for your loved ones and being able to keep them at home is one of the biggest reasons to work at home.Another great benefit is the freedom. You are going to plan and schedule your work, and you are going to be able to work that schedule the way you want to work. This means that you can take some time off when you need to, and you will be able to interact with your family at home or at events
2) Knowing the motives behind each enemy's moves.
Step two is you need to know the reason why these moves are adopted. This is because you can then better understand why these moves are carried out and if there
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The ability to subdue the enemy without battle is a reflection of the ultimate supreme strategy. The supreme is to attack enemies' strategies and plans, by thwarting them. Next is to attack the enemies' strategic alliances with other nations. The next option is to attack enemy troops. The worst option is to attack the cities. (Chapter 3)
So how do we preempt our rival's strategies? In the context of war, firstly, you must be able to anticipate the moves of your enemy. Secondly, the reason behind all these moves and thirdly, coming up with a strategy to counter these moves with the least amount of resources. All these generally need a lot of intelligence to carry out.
1) Anticipating your enemy's moves.
Just by looking step one, we have an idea how difficult it is going to be. You need to have immense first-hand knowledge of your enemy's advisory group and the dynamics of the group too. Each strategist has its specialty and specific liking on employing certain strategy, some would always look to use fire and some would always prefer to destroy everything and so on. The reason why the dynamics of the group need to be understood is each ruler or general has his favorite strategist and it could change with time. Like Liu Bei in the Three Kingdom Era, he would prefer to listen to Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao, also from the Three Kingdom Era, in his early days, prefer to listen to Guo Jia. So you need to have all these knowledge at your fingertips so that you can anticipate, to a reasonable extent, the moves that will be taken by your enemy. This is why intelligence work is very important in the old days. This importance is seen by the fact that Sun Zi devoted one whole chapter on espionage alone (Chapter 13).
2) Knowing the motives behind each enemy's moves.
Step two is you need to know the reason why these moves are adopted. This is because you can then better understand why these moves are carried out and if there a
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So how do we preempt our rival's strategies? In the context of war, firstly, you must be able to anticipate the moves of your enemy. Secondly, the reason behind all these moves and thirdly, coming up with a strategy to counter these moves with the least amount of resources. All these generally need a lot of intelligence to carry out.
1) Anticipating your enemy's moves.
Just by looking step one, we have an idea how difficult it is going to be. You need to have immense first-hand knowledge of your enemy's advisory group and the dynamics of the group too. Each strategist has its specialty and specific liking on employing certain strategy, some would always look to use fire and some would always prefer to destroy everything and so on. The reason why the dynamics of the group need to be understood is each ruler or general has his favorite strategist and it could change with time. Like Liu Bei in the Three Kingdom Era, he would prefer to listen to Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao, also from the Three Kingdom Era, in his early days, prefer to listen to Guo Jia. So you need to have all these knowledge at your fingertips so that you can anticipate, to a reasonable extent, the moves that will be taken by your enemy. This is why intelligence work is very important in the old days. This importance is seen by the fact that Sun Zi devoted one whole chapter on espionage alone (Chapter 13).
2) Knowing the motives behind each enemy's moves.
Step two is you need to know the reason why these moves are adopted. This is because you can then better understand why these moves are carried out and if there
As some of you are recent college grads, I understand that you have become accustomed to literally rolling out of bed and grabbing anything off the floor or out the hamper and going to class. And it was great, wasn’t it? But you know what? You can’t continue to dress that way when you get a job in the corporate work world.Recently it has become clear to me that some of you twentysomethings don’t know what’s appropriate to wear to an interview or in the workplace. And I am by no means a fashion expert but I can make a suggestion right off the bat: IRON YOUR CLOTHES! I’ve seen some of us twentysomethings on the train in the morning, going to work in nice outfits that look like you first balled it up and sat on it, twisted it around itself, jumped on it and then put it on. Please stop that. And for those of you who have to wash your hair every morning, please take the time to blow dry it out. And my people who sport a ‘fro: comb it, shape it and make sure there isn’t any lint in it. Really people, it doesn’t take that much to make yourself look presentable.I know what you’re thinking: “I’m not going to succumb to the way s
2) Knowing the motives behind each enemy's moves.
Step two is you need to know the reason why these moves are adopted. This is because you can then better understand why these moves are carried out and if there
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2) Knowing the motives behind each enemy's moves.
Step two is you need to know the reason why these moves are adopted. This is because you can then better understand why these moves are carried out and if there
A question I hear or read often is, ‘is that professional enough?’ What is ‘professional’, and how is one professional and what is considered unprofessional? The actual definition of ‘professional’ is “Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession: lawyers, doctors, and other professional people.” Or “Conforming to the standards of a profession: professional behavior.”When considering whether a service or location is professional, a great response comes from the dictionary again, which defines professional as “A skilled practitioner; an expert.” I have met many skilled practitioners who are not very professional. I have met many experts who I don’t initially consider a ‘professional’, but who convey a very professional and confident image. Sounds confusing, huh? Yes. In my opinion, a professional person is one who can convey their message or provide their service in a manner appropriate for his/her clientele. When I worked at the hospital, we were required to dress in ‘appropriate professional dress’, but if we worked in the clinics, we were encouraged to not overdress. We unde
2) Knowing the motives behind each enemy's moves.
Step two is you need to know the reason why these moves are adopted. This is because you can then better understand why these moves are carried out and if there are changes in movement or direction in the enemy's camp, you can still anticipate to some extent, what they are doing. And also you would have a better grasp of which is the weakest link in their plans. If you thwarted their plans at the weakest link, you would stop the momentum or the success execution of their plan.
3) Coming up with a counter strategy that can be executed within constraints.
Step three is a matter of working within constraints. Most of us have work under constraints before, for example not enough time, money or sleep. So you would understand what a strategist is going through having to come up with a strategy that must have a high chance of counter the enemy's move and does not cost the nation.
All in all, as mentioned above, it is a battle of wits. The intelligent one will always prevail. And if you are able to thwart your enemy's plan quite often, chances are you would be able to subdue him without going into battle because they know it is useless to go against you since you can 'attack' their strategies so well.
So how do we apply all these to business?
Making reference to the book, Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy Ed.by George S. Day & David J. Reibstein on Chapter 11.
In the chapter, the writer Jerry Wind from Wharton School, Dept of Marketing, wrote that preemption is risky because if you anticipate the wrong move, it could prove costly to you. Like seizing the wrong potential market that never materializes may cost you a lot in expanding capacity and so on.
The first step to formulating out your preemption strategy is to firstly, have knowledge of
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