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The 36 Stratagems for Business : Achieve Your Objectives Through Hidden and Unconventional Strategies and Tactics

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The book is adapted for western readers who are not familiar with Chinese culture and the original 36 strategies. It explains what each strategy is and how to apply to business. The only thing I wish that has been included in the book is the actually war stories where the strategies were first originated or used. This would make the readers understand them better and make the reading more entertaining.

Very insightful material. I would say though that the material must steep a bit before it is fully realized. Read the book, then after a year or so it will begin to unfold.

I enjoyed reading the 36 strategems for business. It did combine the old chinese methods to present day business. Some of the principles shown were very apt and opens your mind to the traditional system of doing business and what they did right then and whats the difference today

difficult to read - when you are not english native speaker
good examples and advises incooperated into context

There are simple and cunning ways of doing business. This book introduces a Western reader to a cunning way of doing business - Chinese style. There are many books published in China and Taiwan linking the art of management with 36 stratagems. The leading Western sinologist, Harro von Senger, provides a rare insight into how Chinese authors are discussing 36 stratagems in the economics field.

The main body of the book has the following structure: The stratagemic expression - theoretical analysis - historical examples - business/economics examples - analysis of some examples. Besides, the author provides a fresh classification of stratagems and makes the first steps of introducing a system behind them. Hopefully, we may get acquainted with further steps in this direction in the following books.