Friend Todd Kuipers (@toddkuipers) sent along a link to an interesting post this week from Eric Barker at www.bakadesuyo.com on what we can learn from Sun Tzu’s Art of War.

Highlights include:
All warfare is based on deception
Rapidity is the essence of war
An army without spies is like a man without ears or eyes
Preparation is everything
Excellence is breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting
How to lead and
How do deal with the enemy

Barker closes out the article by saying that he doesn’t think that Sun Tzu’s Art of War should be applied to most situations of conflict – the issues that most of us deal with are better handled with the tools of negotiation than war.

The article is well thought out and informative- check it out here.