Is Business War?
27th May 2006
Recently I received a comment at my old blogsite to a post in which I highlighted the popularity of Sun Tzu’s Art of War as a business manual. I cast doubts on the use of this ancient manual for wholesale and uncritical application to contemporary business because I think fundamentally the dynamics in war (or military conflicts) are diametrically opposed to those in business. In that post, I ended with the following thoughts:
If we approach business as we approach all of life, with a view that everyone we touch should come out of that experience a better person, that they derive some value from the relationship, then it would make for a better world. No, methinks, business is more than merely warfare, in which there can be no real winners, but in which there are only losers in more ways than one. Business is more like a long-term love affair, where there can only be winners.
My commenter, however did not agree with my post and here is what he has got to say: Read the rest of this entry »
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