Sun Tzu's The Art of War Plus The Art of Career Building: Strategy for your Work Life - Softcover

Gagliardi, Gary; Tzu, Sun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1929194897 ISBN 13: 9781929194896

Publisher: Clearbridge Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Two books in one: the complete Art of War in its only award-winning translation and a line-by-line adaption of Sun Tzu's text to advancing your career. If you want a powerful new perspective on how to advance your career, this is the book for you. This book applies Sun Tzu’s methods specifically to the challenges of finding a better job, getting in-house promotions, dealing with office politics, combating internal rivals, navigating organizational conflicts, interpreting office rumors, and more. Its advice on career planning, company hierarchies, and changing jobs follows Sun Tzu’s principles line by line. The complete text of The Art of War is on the left-hand pages, and The Art of Career Building is on the facing right-hand pages. 224 pages. New edition contains a new introductory explanations of Sun Tzu's concepts, a glossary, an index, and list in each chapter to related articles in Sun Tzu's Playbook. Contents: Art of War (numbered chapters) Art of Career Building (chapter below) Foreword: A Winning Career Introduction: Sun Tzu’s Basic Concepts 1 Analysis Career Planning 2 Going to War Changing Jobs 3 Planning an Attack Picking the Right Job 4 Positioning Getting Promoted 5 Momentum Career Momentum 6 Weakness and Strength Organizational Politics 7 Armed Conflict Internal Conflict 8 Adaptability Flexibility in Your Career 9 Armed March Your Job Search 10 Field Position Evaluating Opportunities 11 Types of Terrain Career Stages 12 Attacking with Fire Winning a Job 13 Using Spies Using Contacts Glossary of Strategic Concepts Index of Topics in The Art of War About the Author

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About the Author

Gary Gagliardi is a multiple award-winning author, successful high-tech entrepreneur, an internationally-known strategic trainer, and America's leading authority on the ancient Chinese strategic system of Sun Tzu's The Art of War Among his accomplishments are: - Authoring over two dozen books on technology, business, marketing, and self-help, with ten of his books winning award recognition in eleven different non-fiction categories, - Appearing as a strategy expert on hundreds of radio and TV shows all across the country, - Founder and 14-year CEO of an Inc. 500 software company focusing on large organization logistics with offices across the U.S. and in Europe, - Having his books have been translated into a dozen different languages and published around the world with his translation of Sun Tzu's used as the basis for translation into other languages, - Speaking all over the world and training the employees of some of the world's largest organizations in competitive strategy.

Review

...creating momentum in your career ... in this indispensable book. -- February 2003, THOMAS FORTENBERRY, Mind Fire Press

The translation still seems to be one of the best that I have seen. --October 2002, Midwest Book Review, HAROLD MCFARLAND,

About this edition

• Publisher: Clearbridge Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1929194897
• ISBN 13: 9781929194896
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224