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The Art of War is well known but the thirty-six strategies are not so well known. A copy of the Art of War should be owned by all business professionals. I don’t really want to start a discourse on Sun Tzu’s book so I’ll leave you with theses 36 mnemonic phrases have been passed into proverbs and are still widely used in the Chinese cultural sphere. - Sneak across the ocean in broad daylight
- Surround one state to save another
- Borrow a sword to kill another
- Face the weary in a condition of ease
- Plunge into a fire to pull off a robbery
- Feint east, strike west
- Make something from nothing
- Cross the pass in the dark
- Watch the fire from the opposite bank of the river
- Hide a sword in a smile
- One tree falls for another
- Take the sheep in hand as you go along
- Beat the grass to startle the snakes
- Borrow a corpse to bring back a spirit
- Train a tiger to leave the mountain
- When you want to take captives, leave them on the loose for awhile
- Toss out a glazed tile to draw a jade
- To capture the brigands, capture the king
- Take the firewood out from under the pot
- Stir up the waters to catch fish
- The gold cicada molts its shell
- Lock the gates to catch the bandits
- Make allies at a distance, attach nearby
- Borrow the right of way to attach the neighbor
- Steal a beam to replace a pillar
- Point at one to scold another
- Feign ignorance without going crazy
- Let them climb the roof, then take away the ladder
- Make flowers bloom on a tree
- Turn the guest into the host
- Scheme with beauties
- Scheme with an empty castle
- Scheme with double agents
- Scheme with self-inflicted wounds
- Scheme in continuous circles
- It is best to run
I’m sure these sound better in Chinese. Languages sometimes don’t translate very well D:
There is a consulting company in London based on the 36 stratagems for business strategy. I want to work for them…
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Lol love the transformation! It looks so polished now.
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?? Don’t tell me you’d figured out the answer now? 😉
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@Sophie this post was a horrible idea. I spent the next few hours reading the book I took this from *sigh*
Also today was dedicated to fixed income so reading the Art of War makes sense – Fixed Income is my least favourite section.
@padniaki when studying for the CFA exams everything seems interesting… -
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Doesn’t make sense to me at all, but neither does “Throw out a glazed tile to draw a jade.”
Oh and needless to say, when anyone asks for advice now, I shrug and offer a cryptic: “work smoothly, lifetime peace.”
LOL – ah but it makes sense to me 😛
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“error”‘s a good topic though.
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I’m currently obsessively reading Artemis Fowl – all your fault @diya.
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is it wrong that i’m looking at them and thinking whether they violate the codes of ethics?
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This post reminds me, the other day I was walking down the street and a man dressed like a Buddhist monk gave me a little plastic medallion that says “WORK SMOOTHLY, LIFETIME PEACE”
Doesn’t make sense to me at all, but neither does “Throw out a glazed tile to draw a jade.”
Oh and needless to say, when anyone asks for advice now, I shrug and offer a cryptic: “work smoothly, lifetime peace.”
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m/
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I still need to read this. Maybe one day when I’m not spending all my time reading CFA material…
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You can bookmark this post easily to on the top righthand corner with the star button 🙂
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