Strategy Pure and Simple: Essential Moves for Winning in Competition and Cooperation

This insight-filled handbook unveils powerful moves to win most anytime, anywhere. Includes highly effective tactics for ethically winning in competition and cooperation, whether in politics, business, war, sports, games, martial arts, or general life. Not a fall-off-the-log easy read, but a theoretical work that clears the deck of anecdotes to reveal the potent basics. Best used as a ready-reference to prompt general solutions when confronting specific problems. "Look inside" before ordering. Written by a noted innovation developer and corporate director. The essence of winning can be distilled from principles common to all successful human action. Studying competition yields insights on winning in fights for rights or interests. Studying cooperation brings skill at winning in groups with shared goals. To cover these subjects, one can sift through the books of master theorists from Sun Tzu, through Machiavelli and Clausewitz, to Drucker and Deming. One can also read about master practitioners from Ulysses, through Napoleon and Lee, to modern-day captains of industry and esteemed statesmen. To aid such effort, this "philosophy of strategy" tries to unearth, consolidate, and integrate the works of these master strategists, revealing the universal rules of winning, those simple yet critical formulas that change a situation to one's advantage. In doing so, it crystallizes the powerful methods of attack and defense for use in virtually any application, helping to change strategy from art to science and making protecting oneself much easier. Because developing strategies often means devising better options, the author includes his handy new idea generator: Use it to prompt new ideas, alternatives, and solutions to thorny problems. Then ask, "Why didn't I think of that before?" Take advantage of the current low price for Version 1.5 March 2020.