The Art of Leadership by Sun Tzu A New Millennium Translation of Sun Tzu’s Art of War
The Art of Leadership by Sun Tzu is a new-millennium bilingual edition of Sun Tzu’s Art of War, published by Premier Pub in 2000. This 272-page work, written by Sunzi, consists of thirteen essays that focus on leadership in both military and state governance contexts. The original title, Thirteen Essays, reflects Sun Tzu’s intent to provide insights into the profession of war management, emphasizing the importance of leadership beyond mere military tactics.
Readers will find that this edition is distinct from others due to its inclusion of 26 cases closely coordinated with the text, offering practical applications of the principles discussed. The essays are organized into four parts, covering topics such as top-level planning, battlefield strategies, and management. The book also features a line-by-line bilingual text, meticulous annotations, and various indexes, making it a comprehensive resource for those interested in leadership, management, and military science.
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Subtitle: A New-Millennium Bilingual Edition of Sun Tzu’s Art of War
The work by Sun Tzu (circa 535-483 BCE), in the form of 13 essays, was termed by him, simply, as Thirteen Essays. The work is a treatise on leadership — by one who aspires to be a leader in war management, for the eyes of a leader in state governance. The label “Art of War” was added by an annotator, a leader in his own right, three quarters of a millennium later — as was his name (Tzu = master, a reverential address; his original name was Sun Wu).
The following is from the preface: “[W]hile the world reveres at his war-specific contributions, important they assuredly are, Sun Wu has made, in my judgment, an even more important, though much subtler, contribution — his view that war management is a profession, that war management is an exercise in leadership.”
The thirteen essays are grouped into four parts, as follows:
Part I Top-Level Planning
Essay 1 Topmost-level planning
Essay 2 Total-resource planning
Essay 3 Strategic planning
Part II Field-Level Planning
Essay 4 Formation planning
Essay 5 Momentum planning
Essay 6 Preparedness planning
Part III Battlefield Strategies
Essay 7 Battlefield maneuvers
Essay 8 Battlefield contingencies
Essay 9 Battlefield logistics
Part IV Battlefield Management
Essay 10 Management of terrain
Essay 11 Deployment of field forces
Essay 12 Use of incendiary
Essay 13 Use of intelligence
This book differs from all other renditions currently on the market in one important respect: it is augmented by 26 cases, two for each eassy, closely coordinated to the text.
Eleven cases are war-related: Sun Wu (512 BCE), Alexander the Great at Hydaspes (312 BCE), Han Xin (203 BCE), American Revolution (1776), Napoleon’s campaign in Russia (1812), American Civil War – Second Bull Run (1862), World War I – World’s first tank battle (1917), World War II – Normandy (1944), Korean War (1951), Vietnam War (1954), Gulf Waw (1991)
Eleven cases are on Year 2000 Presidential Nomination Process – Iowa straw poll, Iowa caucus, New Hampshire primary, Delaware primary, South Carolina primary (3 cases), Virginia ptimary, Super Tuesday
Three cases on war-simulation games – Xiangqi (203 BCE), western chess, Kriegspiel
One case on business
Taking a leaf from the author’s translation of Confucius’s Analects, this volume has the following features acclaimed by critics:
line-by-line bilingual text
meticulous annotation
year-by-year chronology
indexes (subject, cases on war, cases on politics, text
passages referenced in cases)
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