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List of Sun Tzu's Warrior's Rules Articles

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1.1 Position Paths Sun Tzu's six rules defining the continuity of strategic positions over time.
1.1.1 Position Dynamics Sun Tzu's seven rules defining how all current positions are always getting better or worse.
1.1.2 Defending Positions Sun Tzu's six rules defining the basic ways that we defend our current positions until new positions are established.
1.2 Subobjective Positions Sun Tzu's eight rules describing the subjective and objective aspects of a position.
1.2.1 Competitive Landscapes Sun Tzu's seven rules regarding the arenas in which rivals jockey for position.
1.2.2 Exploiting Exploration Sun Tzu's seven rules on how competitive landscapes are searched and positions utilized.
1.2.3 Position Complexity Seven rules regarding how strategic positions arise from interactions in complex environments.
1.3 Elemental Analysis Sun Tzu's eight rules defining the relevant components of all competitive positions.
1.3.1 Competitive Comparison Sun Tzu's six rules defining competition as the comparison of positions.
1.3.2 Element Scalability Sun Tzu's six rules regarding how positions are analyzed by both component positions and elements.
1.4 The External Environment Sun Tzu's seven rules defining the key external conditions shaping strategic positions.
1.4.1 Climate Shift Sun Tzu's nine key rules regarding forces of environmental change shaping temporary conditions.
1.4.2 Ground Features Sun Tzu's ten rules defining the persistent resources that we can control.
1.5 Competing Agents Sun Tzu's seven rules regarding characteristics of competitors.
1.5.1 Command Leadership Twelve rules regarding individual decision-making (leaders).
1.5.2. Group Methods Sun Tzu's ten rules regarding systems for executing decisions (skills).
1.6 Mission Values Sun Tzu's eight rules about the goals and values needed for motivation.
1.6.1 Shared Mission Sun Tzu's ten rules describing on using goals that others can share.
1.6.2 Types of Motivations Sun Tzu's six rules regarding hierarchies of motivation that define missions.
1.6.3 Shifting Priorities Seven rules regarding how missions change according to temporary conditions.
1.7 Competitive Power Sun Tzu's ten rules describing the sources of superiority in overcoming chalenges.
1.7.1 Team Unity Sun Tzu's ten rules for increasing our strength by the way we join with others.
1.7.2 Goal Focus Five rules regarding strength as arising from concentrating efforts.
1.8 Progress Cycle Sun Tzu's ten rules regarding the adaptive loop by which positions are advanced.
1.8.1 Creation and Destruction Sun Five rules regarding the creation and destruction of competitive positions.
1.8.2 The Adaptive Loop Eight rules regarding the continual reiteration of position analysis.
1.8.3 Cycle Time Sun Tzu's four rules regarding the importance of speed in feedback and reaction.
1.8.4 Probabilistic Process Sun Tzu's six rules regarding the role of chance in strategic processes and systems.
1.9 Competition and Production Sun Tzu's seven rules regarding the two opposing skill sets of competition and production.
1.9.1 Production Comparisons Sun Tzu's six rules describing how production naturally creates competition.
1.9.2 Span of Control Sun Tzu's eight rules regarding the boundaries of competition and productiion.
2.0 Developing Perspective Sun Tzu seven rules for adding depth to competitive analysis.
2.1 Information Value Twelve rules regarding knowledge and communication as the basis of strategy.
2.1.1 Information Limits Sun Tzu's eight rules for making good decisions with limited information.
2.1.2 Leveraging Uncertainty Sun Tzu's five rules for leveraging the elemental nature of uncertainty.
2.1.3 Strategic Deception Sun Tzu nine rules in misinformation and disinformation in competition.
2.1.4 Surprise Sun Tzu's five rules on the creation of surprise depends on the nature of information.
2.2 Information Gathering Sun Tzu five rules on gathering competitive information.
2.2.1 Personal Relationships Sun Tzu's five rules on why information depends on personal relationships.
2.2.2 Mental Models Sun Tzu's five rules on how mental models simplify decision-making.
2.2.3 Standard Terminology Sun Tzu five rules regarding how mental models must be shared to enable communication.
2.3 Personal Interactions Sun Tzu's six rules on making progress through personal interactions.
2.3.1 Action and Reaction Sun Tzu eight rules on how we advance based on how others reaction to our actions.
2.3.2 Reaction Unpredictability Sun Tzu's seven rules explaing why we can never exactly predict the reactions of others.
2.3.3 Likely Reactions Six rules regarding the range of potential reactions in gathering information.
2.3.4 Using Questions Sun Tzus five rules for using questions in gathering information and predicting reactions.
2.3.5 Infinite Loops Four principles predicting reactions on the basis of the "you-know-that-I-know-that-you-know" problem.
2.3.6 Promises and Threats Sun Tzu's six rules on the use of promises and threats as strategic moves.
2.4 Contact Networks Five rules regarding the range of contacts needed to create perspective.
2.4.1 Ground Perspective Sun Tzu's three rules about getting information on a new competitive arena.
2.4.2 Climate Perspective Sun Tzu's four rules on getting perspective on temporary external conditions.
2.4.3 Command Perspective Sun Tzu's six rules for understanding developing sources for understanding decision-makers.
2.4.4 Methods Perspective Sun Tzu's five rules for developing contacts who understand best practices.
2.4.5 Mission Perspective Sun Tzu's seven rules on how we develop and use a perspective on motivation.
2.5 The Big Picture Sun Tzu's nine rules on building big picture strategic awareness.
2.6 Knowledge Leverage Sun Tzu's five rules for getting competitive value out of knowledge.
2.7 Information Secrecy Sun Tzu's nine rules defining the role of secrecy in relationships.
3.0 Identifying Opportunities Sun Tzu's five rules regarding the use of opportunities to advance a position.
3.1 Strategic Economics Sun Tzu's six rules balancing the cost and benefits of positioning.
3.1.1 Resource Limitations Sun Tzu's six rules regarding the inherent limitation of strategic resources.
3.1.2 Strategic Profitability Sun Tzu's nine rules for understanding gains and losses.
3.1.3 Conflict Cost Sun Tzu's six rules on the costly nature of resolving competitive comparisons by conflict.
3.1.4 Openings Sun Tzu's seven rules on seeking openings avoids costly conflict.
3.1.5 Unpredictable Value Seven rules regarding the limitations of predicting the value of positions.
3.1.6 Time Limitations Sun Tzu nine rules for understanding the time limits on opportunities.
3.2 Opportunity Creation Five rules regarding how change creates opportunities.
3.2.1 Environmental Dominance Sun Tzu's five rules on why openings must be created by others.
3.2.2 Opportunity Invisibility Sun Tzu five rules on why opportunities are always hidden.
3.2.3 Complementary Opposites Five rules regarding the dynamics of balance from opposing forces.
3.2.4 Emptiness and Fullness Sun Tzu's nine rules on the transformations between emptiness and fullness.
3.2.5 Dynamic Reversal Sun Tzu's five rules regarding how situations reverse themselves naturally.
3.3 Opportunity Resources Eight rules regarding the nature of the excess resources needed to fill openings.
3.4 Dis-Economies of Scale Sun Tzu's six rules on opportunities created by the size of others.
3.4.1 Unity Breakdown Sun Tzu's eight rules regarding the opposition of size and unity.
3.4.2 Opportunity Fit Sun Tzu's seven rules describing the problems for large organization finding new opportunities that fit their size.
3.4.3 Reaction Lag Six rules regarding how size created temporary openings.
3.5 Strength and Weakness Six rules regarding openings created by the strength of others.
3.6 Leveraging Subjectivity Sun Tzu's seven rules regarding openings between subjective and objective positions.
3.7 Defining the Ground Sun Tzu's eight rules on redefining a competitive arena to create relative mismatches.
3.8 Strategic Matrix Analysis Four rules regarding two-dimensional representations of strategic space.
4.0 Leveraging Probability Sun Tzu's ten principles for making better decisions regarding our choice of opportunities.
4.1 Future Potential Five rules regarding the limitations and potential of current and future positions.
4.2 Choosing Non-Action Sun Tzu's seven rules about choosing between action and non-action.
4.3 Leveraging Form Sun Tzu's seven rules on how we can leverage the form of a territory.
4.3.1 Tilted Forms Sun Tzu's six rules regarding space that is dominated by uneven features.
4.3.2 Fluid Forms Sun Tzu's six rules on selecting opportunities in fast-changing environments.
4.3.3 Soft Forms Sun Tzu's six rules regarding space that is dominated by non-supporting features.
4.3.4 Neutral Form Sun Tzu's seven rules for evaluating opportunities with no dominant ground form.
4.4 Strategic Distance Sun Tzu's nine rules regarding relative proximity in strategic space.
4.4.1 Physical Distance Sun Tzu's six rules regarding the issues of proximity in physical space.
4.4.2 Intellectual Distance Sun Tzu's six rules regarding the challenges of moving through intellectual space.
4.5 Opportunity Surfaces Sun Tzu's six rules on judging potential opportunities from a distance.
4.5.1 Surface Area Sun Tzu's seven rules for choosing opportunities on the basis of their size.
4.5.2 Surface Barriers Five rules regarding how to select opportunities by evaluating obstacles.
4.5.3 Surface Holding Power Sun Tzu's seven rules regarding sticky and slippery situations.
4.6 Six Benchmarks Five rules regarding simplifying the comparisons of opportunities.
4.6.1 Spread-Out Conditions Sun Tzu's five rules for recognizing opportunities that are too large.
4.6.2 Constricted Conditions Sun Tzu's five rules for identifying and using constricted positions.
4.6.3 Barricaded Conditions Seven rules regarding the issues related to the extremes of obstacles.
4.6.4 Wide-Open Conditions Six rules regarding the issues related to an abscence of barriers.
4.6.5 Fixed Conditions Nine rules regarding positions with extreme holding power.
4.6.6 Sensitive Conditions Six rules regarding the affects of positions with no holding power on pursuing opportunities.
4.7 Competitive Weakness Six rules regarding how certain opportunities can bring out our weaknesses.
4.7.1 Command Weaknesses Ten rules regarding the character flaws of leaders and how to exploit them.
4.7.2 Group Weaknesses Six rules regarding organizational weakness and where they fail.
4.8 Climate Support Eight rules to help us choose new positions based on future changes.
4.9 Opportunity Mapping Five rules regarding a two-dimensional tool for comparing opportunities probabilities.
5.0 Minimizing Mistakes Five general rules regarding minimizing mistakes in advancing a position.
5.1 Mission Priorities Five rules regarding the alignment of actions with mission.
5.1.1 Event Pressure Sun Tzu's eight rules regarding the pressure of events upon action.
5.1.2 Unproductive Responsibility Seven rules regarding the mistakes made through lack of focus.
5.2 Opportunity Exploration Seven rules regarding a mental framework for exploring opportunities.
5.2.1 Choosing Adaptability Five rules regarding choosing actions that allow us a maximum of future flexibity.
5.2.2 Campaign Methods Five rules describing the use of campaigns and their different methods.
5.2.3 Unplanned Steps Seven principles separating campaign steps from those of a plan.
5.3 Reaction Time Five rules describing different aspect of the role of speed in choosing actions.
5.3.1 Speed and Quickness Seven rules regarding the use of pace within a dynamic environment.
5.3.2 Opportunity Windows Five rules regarding the effect of speed upon the formation of opposition.
5.3.3 Information Freshness Six rules regarding the choosing actions based freshness of information.
5.4 Minimizing Action Five rules regarding economical action, i.e. less is more.
5.4.1 Testing Value Five rules regarding the need to test new positions for value.
5.4.2 Successful Mistakes Six rules regarding the advantages in learning from our mistakes.
5.5 Focused Power Five rules regarding the dimensions of investments in action, i.e. safe experimentation.
5.5.1 Force Size Eight rules regarding limiting the size of force in an advance.
5.5.2 Distance Limitations Eight rules regarding the use of short steps to reach distant goals.
5.5.3 Evaluation Deadlines Six rules regarding setting deadlines for progress.
5.6 Defensive Advances Six rules regarding the relationship of defending and advancing positions.
5.6.1 Defense Priority Seven rules regarding why defense has first claim on our resources.
5.6.2 Acting Now Eight rules regarding why and how we can act on opportunities immediately.
6.0 Situation Response Eight rules regarding the selection of actions most appropriate to a situation.
6.1 Situation Recognition Seven rules regarding skill of situation recognition in making advances.
6.1.1 Conditioned Reflexes Four rules describing how we develop automatic, instantaneous responses.
6.1.2 Prioritizing Conditions Sun Tzu's six rules for parsing complex competitive conditions into simple responses.
6.2 Campaign Evaluation Five rules regarding how we justify continued investment in continuing a campaign.
6.2.1 Campaign Flow Sun Tzu's six rules for seeing campaigns as a series of situations that flow logically from one to another
6.2.2 Campaign Goals Sun Tzu's five rules for assessing the value of a campaign by a larger mission.
6.3 Campaign Patterns Seven rules regarding how our knowledge of campaign stages gives us more control over our situation.
6.3.1 Early-Stage Situations Six rules describing the common situations that arise the earliest in campaigns.
6.3.2 Middle-Stage Situations Six rules regarding the effect of progress on creating new situations in campaigns.
6.3.3 Late-Stage Situations Sun Tzu's six rules for understand the final and most dangerous stages of campaigns.
6.4 Nine Situations Ten rules regarding the basic definition of the nine common competitive situations.
6.4.1 Dissipating Situations Five rules regarding the class of situations where defensive unity is destroyed.
6.4.2 Easy Situations Five rules for recognizing situations of easy initial progress.
6.4.3 Contentious Situations Four rules defining the nature of situations that invite conflict.
6.4.4 Open Situations Sun Tzu's five rules for recognizing situations of that are races without a course..
6.4.5 Intersecting Situations Sun Tzu's five rules for recognizing situations that bring people together.
6.4.6 Serious Situations Six rules for identifying situations where resources can be cut off.
6.4.7 Difficult Situations Six rules regarding situations where serious barriers must be overcome.
6.4.8 Limited Situations Six rules regarding the identification of situations defined by a bottleneck.
6.4.9 Desperate Situations Three rules regarding situations where destruction is possible.
6.5 Nine Responses Twelve rules for using the best responses to the nine common competitive situations.
6.5.1 Dissipating Response Sun Tzu's five rules for responding to dissipation by the use of offense as defense.
6.5.2 Easy Response Five rules regarding overcoming complacency.
6.5.3 Contentious Response Sun Tzu's five rules for responding to contentious situations by knowing how to avoid conflict.
6.5.4 Open Response Five rules to help us keep up with the opposition.
6.5.5 Intersecting Response Five rules regarding the formation of sitational alliances.
6.5.6 Serious Response Sun Tzu's six rules for responding to serious situations by finding immediate income.
6.5.7 Difficult Response Five rules regarding the role of persistence.
6.5.8 Limited Response Four rules regarding the need for secret speed.
6.5.9 Desperate Response Five rules regarding the risking of all our resources.
6.6 Campaign Pause Five rules regarding knowing when to stop advancing positions.
6.7 Tailoring to Conditions Seven rules regarding overcoming opposition using conditions in the environment.
6.7.1 Form Adjustments Five rules regarding adapting our responses based on the form of the ground.
6.7.2 Size Adjustments Seven rules regarding adapting responses based on comparing size of forces.
6.7.3 Strength Adjustments Nine rules regarding adapting responses by comparing the strength of forces.
6.8 Competitive Psychology Nine rules for us situation response to improve competitive psychology, even in adversity and failure.
6.8.1 Adversity and Creativity Sun Tzu's nine rules for how we use adversity to spark our creativity.
6.8.2 Strength in Adversity Seven rules regarding using adversity to increase a group's unity and focus.
6.8.3 Individual Toughness Eight rules regarding how we to develop character from failure.
7.0 Creating Momentum Seven rules regarding the need for creativity to create momentum.
7.1 Order from Chaos Seven rules regarding how chaos creates value in competitive momentum.
7.1.1 Creating Surprise Five rules for creating surprise in a chaotic environment.
7.1.2 Momentum Psychology Sun Tzu's five rules regarding the psychological use of surprise in chaotic situations.
7.1.3 Standards and Innovation Seven rules regarding creative methods in chaotic environments.
7.2 Standards First Seven rules regarding the role of standards to creating initial connections with others.
7.2.1 Proven Methods Sun Tzu's eight rules for identifying and recognizing the limits of best practices.
7.2.2 Preparing Expectations Eight rules regarding how we shape other people's expectation.
7.3 Strategic Innovation Six rules defining Sun Tzu's system for innovation.
7.3.1 Expected Elements Seven rules regarding breaking processes and systems into components.
7.3.2 Elemental Rearrangement Six rules regarding innovations as a rearranging elements.
7.3.3 Creative Innovation Seven rules regarding the more advanced methods for innovation
7.4 Competitive Timing Rules regarding the role of timing in creating momentum.
7.4.1 Timing Methods Four rules regarding the three simplest methods of controlling timing.
7.4.2 Momentum Timing Sun Tzu's five rules regarding the relative value of momentum at various times in a campaign.
7.4.3 Interrupting Patterns Six rules regarding how repetition creates patterns for surprise.
7.5 Momentum Limitations Six rules regarding the implication of momentum's temporary nature.
7.5.1 Momentum Conversion Six rules regarding the conversion of momentum into positions with more value.
7.5.2 The Spread of Innovation Four rules regarding how use the spread of innovation to advance our position.
7.6 Productive Competition Eight rules regarding the effect of momentum producing more resources.
7.6.1 Resource Discovery Six rules regarding how innovation creates value in once worthless resources.
7.6.2 Ground Creation Six rules describing how we use the creation of competitive ground to be successful.
8.0 Winning Rewards Six rules describing the way we harvest the rewards of a new position.
8.1 Successful Positions Four rules describing the nature of a profitable positions.
8.1.1 Transforming Resources Six rules for converting the less tangible value of positions to the resources we need.
8.1.2 Reward Boundaries Six rules defining the limits of our control over a position and its rewards.
8.1.3 Reward Timing Six rules for identifying rewarding position generically based upon timing.
8.2 Making Claims Five rules regarding the need to claim rewards after winning positions.
8.3 Securing Rewards Five rules describe how we maximize the rewards from a position.
8.3.1 Gauging Value Five rules for the methods for correctly measuring a position's value.
8.3.2 Distinctive Packaging Nine rules regarding how to create the perception of value.
8.3.3 Rules of Engagement Nine rules outlining the do's and don't of claim encounters.
8.3.4 Position Production Seven rules describing the shift from profitable competition and profitable production.
8.4 Individual Support Eight rules describing the general techniques for winning the support of individuals.
8.5 Leveraging Emotions Eight rules describing how we use emotion to obtain rewards.
8.6 Winning Attention Eight rules describing how to win the attention of others to our claims.
8.7 Productivity Improvement Seven rules for improving internal production to support external competition.
8.7.1 Evaluating Erosion Eight rules for gauging the erosion of our current positions.
8.7.2 Abandoning Positions Sun Tzu's six rules describing how we abandon a losing position safely.
9.0 Understanding Vulnerability Six rules regarding the use of common environmental attacks.
9.1 Climate Vulnerability Seven rules describing our vulnerability to environmental crises.
9.1.1 Climate Rivals Sun Tzu's six rules for preparing against how changing conditions create opponents.
9.1.2 Threat Development Seven rules regarding how changing conditions create environmental threats.
9.2 Points of Vulnerability Five rules regarding the five vulnerabilities of a position during an environmental crisis.
9.2.1 Personnel Risk Five rules regarding the vulnerability of key individuals upon which a position depends.
9.2.2 Immediate Resource Risk Five rules regarding the resources required for the immediate use of a position.
9.2.3 Transportation/Communication Risk Four rules regarding how firestorms choke normal channels of movement and communication.
9.2.4 Asset Risk Sun Tzu's four rules regarding the threats to fixed assets.
9.2.5 Organizational Risk Five rules regarding the targeting the division of roles and responsibility upon which a position depends.
9.3 Crisis Leadership Nine rules for maintaining the support of our supporters during attacks.
9.3.1 Mutual Danger Six rules describing how we use of mutual danger to create mutual strength.
9.3.2 Message Control Five rules regarding communication methods during a crisis.
9.4 Crisis Defense Five rules regarding how vulnerabilities are exploited and defended during a crisis.
9.4.1 Division Defense Five rules for preventing organizational division during a crisis.
9.4.2 Panic Defense Four rules regarding to prevent mistakes from panic during a crisis.
9.4.3 Defending Openings Four rules on how to defend openings created by a crisis.
9.4.4 Defending Alliances Five rules regarding dealing with guilt-by-association.
9.4.5 Defensive Balance Four rules regarding the use of short-term conditions to tip the balance in a crisis.
9.5 Crisis Exploitation Five rules about how to successfully use an opponent's crisis.
9.5.1 Adversarial Opportunities Eight rules on how opponents' crises can create opportunities.
9.5.2 Avoiding Emotion Sun Tzu's six rules regarding the danger of exploiting environmental vulnerabilities for purely emotion reasons.
9.6 Constant Vigilance Five rules describing where to focus our attention on the climate to preserve positions.
 
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