I quote from "36 Strategies of The Chinese", Accepting Ancient Wisdom To The Business World by Wee Chow Hou and Lan Luh Luh:
' LOOTING A HOUSE ON FIRE'
"When the enemy is in big crisis, that is the time to destroy him. This will enable the strong to conquer the weak as mentioned in Yi Jang's chapter on "Jue".
Wow! What words of wisdom ! The strong destroying the weak at their time of crisis. A zero sum game. Only one will stand when the war is over. And according to most Chinese philosophers, there are only losers and winners in business, No middle ground here. Sun Tzu et al.
My last posting was about happiness, which cannot be achieved if you are alone.
Really, what would life be if everyone else was dead ? Would you like to build a palace in the middle of burial grounds ?
No competition, no one to benchmark against, no one to look up to and emulate, no one to beat or better and therefore no happiness ?
Shoot, I would rather have competition and try to better them than to destroy them altogether.
Which brings me to the issue of Ji Yang and Sun Tzu and other so called ancient gurus of war who are now sold as gurus of management.
SUN TZU IS DEAD. and so is that style/brand of management. Business is not a zero sum game, neither is it a war. Only one man standing makes one man standing alone. One single man is not a civilization. People can co-operate and profit together. In fact, there is no other choice but to act, grow and prosper together. Competition is good, destruction of competitors is bad. Sounds contradictory eh ?
Ask the Americans. They tried being the ONLY power in the world. Now they have self desctructed themselves. A hard lesson is to be learned, at great pain I am sure.
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“I would rather have competition and try to better them than to destroy them altogether.”
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Yeah one likes to share his achievements, prosperity; talk about his valour, his conquests but to share this he needs his family and friends, which are his allies. In modern business it is believed that every thing has its price. To achieve success one pays a price, it’s very much up to him what, that’s going to be?
To justify, I’ll recount an incident which occurred with the President of Virgin Group. Richard Branson, the ideal Billionaire, challenged his friend Shawn Nelson, a cheque for $1 million and the catch was, he could take the cheque or toss a coin for an even bigger prize. If he lost the toss, he would lose it all. The inevitable bridge in front of Shawn Nelson was which bridge to cross and which to burn, after going through the agonizing moment of making a choice, he choose to take the cheque of $1 Million and along with that he was offered a bigger prize to be the president of Virgin.
Moral of the story: Life has many choices; one has to put on ones thinking cap to make the right decision at the right time.
Calculate the risks and take them. Be judicious not malicious.
Meri Billi mujh ko hee meow? You read my book and quote to me ? But the thought is correct. Be judicious, not malicious.
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