Dr.

Phillip A Karber Sun Tzu & Competitive Strategy

Worked for Cap Weinberger in Reagan applying business strategy to
Defense
When Paris Hilton starts reading it its getting out of hand as a caricature
Basic Book is by Jiles is the worst translation
Sam Griffith Marine General but his introduction is really good
RL Wing - The Art of Strategy out of print on Amazon for $15, and captures
the poetry
Chinese ontology is about the criteria or framework we use to manage
inputs to what we know (as opposed to epistemology)
The dominant concept in the book is of the Tau
Core to I Ching concept is the universe started out as unity and divided,
when it divides it is into Yin and Yang with opposite characteristics of dark
and light
Oriental perspective is of alteration struggle of life is of rotating through
the cycle and one is not better than the either
There is an ontological dimension of time; Sun Tzu is speaking to leader,
and what should be his Tau there is a temporal dimension and a method
Conditions are the fixed things in the environment that you cant control but
want to know most will not change in the next ten years, but in the
battlefield there are many things you can change on the earth
Sun Tzu puts two dimensions (sun and earth) in framework
? Gong Study of Chinese Culture was in the PLA and was at Beijing
University
Pierce at Harvard came up with theory of abductive reasoning collect
data, theory, collect more data a real way to live in world that is not
scientific method