You have probably been told, at some point, that you just need to “stay motivated.” Maybe a podcast host said it. Maybe a LinkedIn post with a sunrise background said it. Maybe you said it to yourself at 6 AM while staring at running shoes you had no intention of putting on. Here is the […]
Forget Motivation: Use Sun Tzu’s Concept of “Moral Force” Instead Read More »
There is a moment in every remote team’s life when someone types “sounds good” in Slack and absolutely nobody knows what it refers to. Three people assume it means the deadline moved. Two others think the project got approved. One person missed the message entirely because they were in a different time zone, asleep, as
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There is a certain irony in the fact that the most quoted strategist in the history of warfare wrote a book that is, at its core, about avoiding warfare altogether. Sun Tzu’s The Art of War sits on the bookshelves of CEOs, coaches, military generals, and that one guy at every dinner party who thinks
Stop Fighting Fire with Fire: The Counterintuitive Path to Conflict Resolution Read More »
Most people think of Sun Tzu as a military strategist. A guy who wrote about war two and a half thousand years ago. Useful for generals, maybe for CEOs who want to sound smart in meetings. Not exactly the first name you reach for when your inbox is overflowing, your sleep is broken, and your
Is Your Life a Siege? How Sun Tzu Teaches You to Break the Cycle of Stress Read More »
We love predictions. Every January, experts line up to tell us what the stock market will do, which technologies will dominate, who will win elections. By February, most of these predictions are already wrong. By December, we’ve forgotten them entirely. Yet come next January, we’ll listen to the same experts make new predictions with the
Why Prediction is Not Strategy: Sun Tzu’s Caution Against Future-Gazing Read More »