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Sun Tzu's Art of War is perhaps the best known and highly regarded treatise on strategy ever written. Although its wisdom is over two thousand years old, its principles are timeless for today's boardroom battlefields. Thirteen sections present incisive strategems from assessing the foe to proper treatment of troops to espionage. Hanshi Steve Kaufman, the widely acknowledged "Founding Father" of American Karate, translates this classic with respect for its powerful martial applications. Kaufman packs the power of the original text into straightforward prose for the benefits of all martial artists and corporate warriors.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gold trader looking for answers!, Jan 15 2004

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This review is from: Art Of War (Paperback)

I am the author of the book Futures For Small Speculators and Single Stock Futures For Small Speculators as well as the president of Liverpoolgroup.com.

Our focus is in the futures, commodities, and option business. We trade oil, cattle, gold, currency etc. And each one of our employees is an "independent" contractor. The problem with that is the fact that often times this very independent entrepreneurial group has a hard time balancing trading with finding clients.

Since many of us in the office have a martial arts background I bought a case of this version for the office. Everyone loved it and felt that Sun Tzu inspired them. Mr.Kaufman's use of the word "warlord" instead of "general or emperor, etc." really resonated with the brokers. They felt that the markets were a battlezone and they were the "warlords" attempting to tame it.

I am impressed that this book was such a moral booster. I will be checking out some of Mr.Kaufman's other works.

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4.0 out of 5 stars work blindness?, Aug 30 2001

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Alejandro Ceballos "joal@joal.net" (Gdl, MX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art Of War (Paperback)

I expected more; I exepect a "this the Sun-Tzu paragraph; this is how and why is applied to martial arts".
It has good content, and reflects the Sun Tzu work and martial arts.. in a dissasociated way. I found the book like the author says: I read the book of Sun-Tzu, lets take the subject of each of the 13 books, and let me develop it from a martial view.
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Esperaba m‡s. Esperaba un "este es la frase de Sun-Tzu; esto es como y por q� se aplica a las artes marciales".
Tine buen contenido, y si relaciona el trabajo de Sun Tzu con las artes marciales.. en forma disasociada. Encontr� el libro como si el autor hubiese dicho: Le' el libro de Sun-Tzu, ahora tomemos cada uno de los temas de cada libro, y desarrollemoslo cada uno desde el punto de vista marcial.

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4.0 out of 5 stars THE ART OF WAR, Aug 20 2001

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Anthony Cataldo (Jupiter, Fl) - See all my reviews

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This is an excellent text on military strategy and use of tactics to control people. It is over 2500 years old and is still relevant today. It is a book studied world wide by most military forces and some police agencies. As a police officer survival skills instructor I teach many of Sun Tzu's techniques and tacics for dealing with crowd control and riots. It is also serves some purpose as a practical guide for use in self-defense training. Author has done a simple and effective job translating and presenting the ideas and concepts of Sun Tzu.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Leader of the Species
Stephen F. Kaufman does an excellent job explaining the brutal and merciless strategies of war. Like any warlord, Kaufman refrains from the usage of unnecessary metaphors and... Read more

Published on April 21 2001 by Hector G. Parra

5.0 out of 5 stars "Very basic," is an accomplishment. - a military reader.
Thank you [Mr. Kaufman] for eliminating the fluff and presenting a usable guide to the military/warlike mind.

Published on Aug 25 1998