The book starts by an full copy of the original "The Art of War" and then it gives advices based on it. very good one I definitely recommended for anyone to read.

My parents got me this book because they know that I'm interested in things like that (although my Chinese is terrible). And it took some time, but I finally read this book!

Well, this book has two parts - Part One is the translation of The Art of War in English. Part Two is how you can apply The Art Of War to your life. Each chapter is pretty short, and there's an even shorter summary at the end of each chapter. For Part Two, it's subdivided into five sections - Personal Characteristics for Success, Strategies for Success, Tactics for Success, Competitive Success, and Examples for Success.

So that is what the book is about. And from the blurb, it says that this book is "following up on the bestselling success of Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers". That gave me a huge "aha" moment. This book felt so much like reading a business book, although it's supposed to be a general self-help type of book. I'm not sure if it's the language or just a weird sense that comes from reading too many business-related books, but I kept thinking I was reading a managing handbook. So if you're the type that drops off at the hint of "business", you might want to hold back on this book.

All in all, this is a pretty interesting book. Apart from the sense that I was reading something business-related (which I didn't actually mind that much), this is an easy-to-read book about how Sun Tzu could apply to our lives.

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Easy to read self-help book.

This books compliments the 33 Strategies of War by Robert Green. What this book does is to put muscles on the skeleton rules of war so that you are able to see the daily battles of life.

While there were some good points raised in application of Sun Tzu principles in working towards your goals, they were rarely delved into depth.

The first part of the book is a brief translation of the Sun Tzu Art of War text. For a clearer and much more detailed analysis of the Sun Tzu Art of War (with original text), I would highly recommend "Qi Men Dun Jia Sun Tzu Warcraft" by Joey Yap instead.

The book starts by an full copy of the original "The Art of War" and then it gives advices based on it. very good one I definitely recommended for anyone to read.

This is an excellent read and we'll worth my time. The First Part of this Work is The Art of War by Sun Tzu. The Second part is his Interpretation. The interpretation to any work on Strategy is important. Michaelson doesn't let his readers down. He includes many examples of his life experiences in the second part of this work.