The picture is of Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China – and that’s what Bing-fa is all about – not about combat, but about empire building. Qin Shi Huang assembled the brightest minds from the known world and established academies of learning in the kingdom of Qin where they faced noble objectives: find a […]
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The short answer is that this is not another version, this is the version. This re-telling, in plain English, is what the original Sun Tzu (more correctly Ping-fa) says. Ping-fa is not a message and method for war, but a message and method for achieving organizational goals without conflict. This finding is what happens when […]
The Chief: What Sun Tzu (Bing-fa) calls a “Sovereign” [This is an excerpt from my just published book called The School of Sun Tzu – available at: http://tinyurl.com/897kb6p I have developed, from the Bing-fa and Tao the Ching, extrapolations concerning key organizational roles. These are somewhat intuited from these texts; however the suggested profiles for […]
Follow me on Twitter! ShibumiMC ———————————————————————————————— I didn’t set out to build a time machine. I just wanted to test a crazy idea. I thought maybe a microwave would be more useful if you could actually see how well cooked something was. The only problem was how to do that. After a good long think […]
One reads of so-called “multiple personalities” – you know, those “Three Faces of Eve” sorts of things. That’s where there are two or more distinct people wrapped up in the same epidermal packaging. Though I’m not a psychiatrist – and goodness knows this is not a psychiatry journal – I have had my doubts about […]
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