art of war sun tzu strategy card deck user's guide
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Users GuideArt of War: Sun Tzu
Strategy Card Deck
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Table of Contents
Introduction Card Set Description
Card Use For the Leadership
Strategy Training
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Introduction
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What is theArt of War: Sun TzuStrategy Card Deck?
TheArt of War: Sun Tzu Strategy Card Deck is acard set of winning strategies designed toimprove your ability to succeed when faced with
adversaries
It is also a playing card
deck made from casino
grade card stock
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Qualifications
TheArt of War: Sun TzuStrategy Card Deck hasbeen rigorously reviewed byprofessional strategists toinclude instructors of theNational Defense Universityat Ft. McNair, Washington,
D.C.
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Why was theArt of War: Sun TzuStrategy Card Deck written?
Because your plans needto survive contact withyour adversaries
and the first key to winning is staying inthe game
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Who is theArt of War: Sun TzuStrategy Card Deck for?
Military Business
Law
Politics Sports
Anyone who wants to train their competitivemind to be at its very best
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Why is theArt of War: Sun TzuStrategy Card Deck Necessary?
Many anthropologistsbelieve that humanintelligence evolved to make
us better able to deceive anddefeat our neighbors
TheArt of War: Sun Tzu Strategy Card Deck
contains the strategies men and women haveused to deceive and defeat their neighbors sincethe dawn of time
Knowing the strategies is to your advantage
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Why should I use theArt of War:Sun Tzu Strategy Card Deck?
The better you are atapplying conflictstrategies, the less
likely you are toneed them
This means you can better focus your attention
on positive efforts and act in accord with your
conscience
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It is also a matter ofsurvival
Other people will use
these strategiesagainst you
The best way to ensure that your adversaries
succeed is for you not to appreciate what theyare doing to you
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Practice
The key to applying the strategiesin theArt of War: Sun Tzu StrategyCard Deck is to practice, practice,and practice
Review the cards in training Review the cards before addressing a challenge Review the cards after a contest to improve your
performance next time
Use the cards in your weekend card games;your unconscious mind will process the ideaswhile you have fun
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Art of War: Sun Tzu Strategy Card
Deck makes training easy and fun
and as rigorous as you want your
training to be
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Card Set
Description
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54 Cards: 54 Strategies3 points of advice
per card
162 points of advice
In total
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Card Layout
Title Name of thestrategy
Strategy Definition of
the strategy Basis Why the
strategy works
Number & suit
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Four Categories
Each suit represents a category
All contests involve an interplay and progressionof the categories as follows:
Prepare self
Prepare field of contest
IsolateEliminate
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Cause
What you do (Cause)
Prepare self
Prepare field of contest
Isolate Eliminate
What you effect
Material
Space
Time Safety
The categories represent causes
Causes are what you do to effect something elseThat something else is material (to include
people), space, time, and/or safety
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A Natural Pattern A universal pattern of progress from beginning
to end can be seen in how a salesperson winsa sale, a lawyer wins a case, an innovatorcaptures an idea, a predator captures its prey,
etc. For example:1. Prepare self A wolf learns how to be the
best hunter it can be
2. Prepare field of contest The wolf seeksthe best position between itself and its quarry
3. Isolate The wolf isolates one animal from the herd
4. Eliminate The wolf goes in for the kill
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A Natural Pattern (Part 2) In comparison, for example:
1. Prepare self A lawyer educates himself as best he canabout a case
2. Prepare field of contest The lawyer seeks the best
jury at jury selection, and selects and prepares the rightwitnesses
3. Isolate The lawyer finds an inconsistency on the part ofthe opposing side and steers the focus of that case to
that inconsistency4. Eliminate The lawyer uses the inconsistency to create
reasonable doubt in the jury and gets an acquittal
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Effect
The effect you want to achieve is to:
Eliminate; Isolate;
integrate or;
negateyour adversary orsomething important
for his or hersuccess
Eliminate Isolate
Negate Integrate
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Direct
You achieve this directlyEliminate by eliminating
Isolate by isolating
Integrate by integratingNegate by negating
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Indirect
You achieve this indirectlyEliminate by isolating,
integrating or negating
Isolate by eliminating,integrating or negating
Integrate by eliminating,
isolating or negatingNegate by eliminating,
isolating or integrating
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Remembering that by executingyour strategy you can effect
Material Space
Time Safety
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Mutually Supportive
Each card offersadvice
You may or may not
know how to enactthat advice
If you do not know how to enact advice from one
card, you can find an answer on another card
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Example of Mutual Support
For example, a
common way toProvoke YourAdversarys Reaction
is to bluff, which maybe done in accordwith CreateSomething FromNothing
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Example Mutual Support
For example, anattorney mightexplore how anopponent will react to
a real threat bypresenting and thenwithdrawing a threat
of no actualsubstance
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Card UseStructured yet flexibleapproach that models
real life
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Review tool
A simple but effective wayto use the cards is to justread them and think aboutthe ideas
There are only 1,700 words in the entire carddeck, so you can read it in under twenty minutes
Do this a few times, and your strategic
performance will improveLike any art form, repetition improvesperformance
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Card Logic
For more sophisticated use, you can use otheraspects of the cards, such as the rank, as well
The cards are organized logically, but unlike abook, the cards can also be arranged in anyfashion suitable to asituation
This flexibility helps you
to take advantage ofopportunities
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Rank
Higher ranked cards tend to denote strongerstrategies than lower ranked cards;
however, any strategy, no matter the rank, couldbe the right and strong strategy for a givensituation
You need to make all thestrategies a part of you soyou can use them naturallywithout thinking about themtoo much
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Opportunity Management As you plan and execute
an action, you seek to relyon strategies described intheArt of War: Sun TzuStrategy Card Deck from
higher and higher ranks If your action is grounded on strategies at the
top, for example, the four aces, then you are in a
strong position If your action is grounded on strategies of low
ranked cards, for example, the threes, then youare in a comparatively weak position
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Card Rank as a Predictor ofSuccess
If the success of your actiondepends upon a higher rankingstrategy, then you generallyhave a better chance of winningthan if your success dependsupon a lower ranking strategy
provided you execute thestrategy well enough tosucceed
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Go from Weakness to Strength
Prepare self Prepare the field Isolate Eliminate
of contest
Seek to progress a series of actions from left, Live to Fight
Another Day, to right and up, Eliminate Your Adversary
Live to Fight
Another Day
Eliminate Your
Adversary
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Steadily Strengthen Your OptionsSeek to be able to use strategies from cards with higher
ranks
7
K
107
Prepare self Prepare the field Isolate Eliminate
of contest
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Gray Division
Strength by rank is a gray division, not black andwhite
Any strategy could prove the winning
strategy
With the principles of strategy in mind, have the
flexibility to use whichever strategy makes sense
at the time
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Best/Worst Situation
Your best position is to have the power neededto execute any of the aces, even if you do notactually use them
Your least favorable position is to have only thepower to enact one of the twos or other lowerranked cards
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Command the Whole ProcessThe longest path to victory starts at Live to Fight Another
Day where you must build from weakness to strength
2
A
Prepare self Prepare the field Isolate Eliminate
of contest
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Then Seek AcceleratorsThe shortest path to victory begins right at Eliminate YourAdversary since having that power, even if you choose not
use if, gives you considerable leverage over your adversary
Prepare self Prepare the field Isolate Eliminate
of contest
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Deuces Wild
Keep in mind that you make a given strategya winner or loser!!! A master strategist might make his adversary believe
the he (the adversary) has won because the masterstrategist has run away, and thenstrike when that adversary lets hisguard down a win from a weakposition
In contrast, eliminating an adversarymight cause a more formidableadversary to take his place a lossfrom a strong position
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CombinationsThe strategy described on each card is like a
single note on a piano
Combinations of strategies create the mostpower
For example, youmight Raise theStakesby StrikingWith a Borrowed
Handand make that the only part of your planyou show before a surprise strike which is yet afourth card, Catch Your Adversary Sleeping
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Wild Cards
Wild cards provide a way to
resolve issues, one way or theother They do not belong in any
specific suites or ranks
At any point in the strategicprocess, you can enact a wildcard
However, do so for goodreason because they represent
risky moves
Which for dramatic purposes is one reason
Hollywood portrays them so often
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Crisis Action Planning (CAP)
During a crisis, people tend tofall back on the strategies theyknow or strategies that workedbefore
Familiar strategies are not necessarily the beststrategies for a given situation
The Art of War: Sun Tzu Strategy Card Deck
allows you to quickly consider strategies that youmight recognize, but that might not otherwise beat the top of your mind
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For theLeadership
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Training Tool
TheArt of War: Sun TzuStrategy Card Deck is aready made training toolyou can employanywhere and anytime
Select a specific card, or pull one at random,and you have material to discuss
Use the cards to critique during an after actionreview
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Opportunity Management
As per the Card Usesection, you can track theprogress of peopleworking for you through a
campaign from the lowerleft position of weaknessto the upper right positionof strength
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Strength and Weakness Perception
Challenge theperception of strengthand weakness fromthose responsible forcarrying out actions
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Other Advantages
Leaders, by and large,are doers that prefer toget out there and makethings happen
The cards are geared toward the doer mentality;people of action will read them
Results are immediate; by reading just one cardbefore a contest, your people will likely do betterat that contest
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StrategyTraining
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Teaching Points
Each card has three pointsyou can talk to
There are 162 teaching
points in total within all54 cards
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Group Discussion
Shuffle the cards Have a participant draw
a card at random Discuss the strategy as
it pertains to your profession or situation Each card tends to produce at least seven
minutes of discussion
This is a very simple technique, but extremelyeffective
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Strategy Review
Record and discuss an actionthat required strategic thoughtto succeed
Discuss the action and identify the strategies
used by the leadership Discuss each strategy, the wisdom of its choice,
and how well it was executed
You can break down an entire action intostrategy segments
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Scenario Play
Shuffle cards and drawuntil you have one cardfrom each suit 4 cards in total
Use the combination to describe a situation andask students what they should do to enact orcounter the combined strategy
This requires some creativity on your part as a
trainer
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Training Continuity
Unlike most strategy trainingmaterial, theArt of War: SunTzu Strategy Card Deck is socompact it should never end
up on a shelf
You and your people can review the deck in afew minutes just about anytime and anywherethey have a few moments to spare
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Interview Tool
Since 2004, when theArt of War:Sun Tzu Strategy Card Deck wasreleased, one thing has beenvery clear
Executives get it The less upwardly mobile, on the whole, do not
If you are trying to recruit people with executive
potential, their reaction to these cards can provetelling
When given a chance to review the cards, executives tend to ask where they
can get a set; non-executives tend to ask what they are for or what is the game
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These are the cards you play
when its not a game
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Further Details on Strategy
If you want to know more about strategy,
consider purchasing the card companion bookUnderstanding Sun Tzu on the Art of War
Or contact
Center For Advantage [email protected]
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All the beston
your endeavors!!!
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Book by Robert Cantrell
Heartland Reviews
As a retired military intelligenceprofessional and conflict theorist, Imust say this is the best interpretationof Sun Tzus classic work I have read.The author focuses on the meaningsbehind this ancient Chinese warphilosophers writings. He puts theminto a modern context, making themeasy to understand. Apparently theDepartment of Defense agrees withme on this, since they have selectedMr. Cantrells book as a text for theNational War College in WashingtonDC. This is a must read for all militaryofficers and business leaders. It rateda perfect five hearts.
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