{"id":45664,"date":"2025-09-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strtgy.design\/articles\/sun-tzu-x-make-progress\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T13:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:12:12","slug":"sun-tzu-x-make-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strtgy.design\/en\/strtgy-notes-en\/sun-tzu-x-make-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Tzu \u00d7 MAKE PROGRESS\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Before we begin<\/strong>
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\u00abThe supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.\u00bb
\u2014 Sun Tzu, Chinese general and philosopher<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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ATTENTION! THIS IS AN INTERACTIVE NEWSLETTER AND REQUIRES YOUR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION. READ EVERYTHING AND START READING THE 13 CHAPTERS.<\/p>\n\n

It all began with a trip to China.<\/strong> Twenty hours of flying, there and back. I don\u2019t like watching movies on planes, so I brought a book with me that was, let\u2019s say, on theme:\u00a0 The Art of War by Sun Tzu<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

It\u2019s a book you can read in an hour. <\/strong>But I still had nineteen hours ahead of me, so I decided to take a deeper dive.<\/p>\n\n

Why? <\/strong>This is one of those texts that is always cited as a cornerstone of strategy. And yet, it is rarely read carefully and truly connected to modern strategic thinking. So I decided to take on an exercise: compare Sun Tzu\u2019s principles with the theoretical framework of MAKE PROGRESS\u00ae<\/strong> and the strategic principles I use every day.<\/p>\n\n

This newsletter will be different from the usual<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

It will be<\/strong> interactive<\/strong>. It consists of 13 emails, one for each chapter of the book. Each one includes:<\/p>\n\n