Jiang Tai Gong approach can be found in his essay ["Six Strategies"] aka ["The Six Secret Strategic Teachings"]
It's a good book for "newbies" who are interested in strategic consulting and advising. There is of six chapters of good strategic & tactical principles that guide the readers in the art and science of effective strategy and leadership from a top-down mode.
Note: I will describe some of Jiang's concepts in a contemporary sense.
The first two "chapters" deal with the duties of the organization and the natural transition of power to the principal rival if the organization fails. This scenario can be described as a "respective" interplay of "yin and yang."
The Civil Strategic Secret: The first chapter stresses the importance of recruiting talent, managing the organization, and valuing developing a proper relationship within your client and your own organization. Once the bond of absolute trust is established, they will do almost anything for you.
The Military Strategic Secret: The second chapter accentuates the importance of how to prevail over the opposition and how to build a territorial domain by the following actions: Cultivating yourself and organizing your own group in order to govern your external settings and pacify the world. The concept of "conquering without a single tactical battle" is also greatly emphasized. (It is similar to Sunzi's concept of "winning a war without a battle.")
The Dragon Strategic Secret: The emphasis is on how to lead wisely through various situations by understanding and development operational command, order, and liaison.
The Tiger Strategic Secret: The emphasis is on the tactical essentials, including matters related to proper group-maneuvering procedures for certain scenarios.
The Leopard Strategic Secret: This chapter focuses on the tactical specifics for finding the critical path toward completing the objective
The Dog Strategic Secret: This final chapter focuses on the tactical specifics of trapping the target (i.e., encircling and intercepting). There are also good points on selecting and training the desired professionals and coordinating the personnel's and resources toward the target.
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The Macro Specifics Behind Sunzi's Art of War:
Part I: Top Level Thinking
* Topmost-Level planning (Develop Calculations): The first chapter focuses on the the importance of carefully considering one's approach and plans.
* Total-resource planning (Wage War): The next stage discusses what it takes to develop and deploy a plan.
* Strategic planning (Plan The Offense): Focus on how to compete w.0. competing at all.
Part II: Field Level Planning
* Formation planning (Dispositions): How to control the (strategic) situation w.o. the conflict begins.
* Momentum planning (Energy): How to use momentum and timing to defeat the competition
* Preparedness planning (Weakness and Strengths): How to identify the best matchup by matching strengths to the weaknesses of the competition.
Part III: Battlefield Strategies
* Battlefield maneuvers (Maneuver): How to tactically deploy and shift your forces before and during the combat.
* Battlefield contigencies (The Nine Variables): How to adapt to the realities of the battle, which means one must adapt to the advantages and disadvantages of the moment that often determine victory or defeat.
* Battlefield logistics (Marches): What it takes to lead oneself and the team through the challenge of the mission.
Part IV: Battlefield Management
* Management of terrains (Terrains): The different types of obstacles that one can face and how to deal with them.
* Deployment with field forces (The Nine Varieties of Ground): Reacting to the different situations and how to take advantage.
* Use of Incendiary (Attack by Fire): Identifying the different types of influences and how to use them.
* Use of Intelligence (Employ Secret Agents): The importance of gathering competitive intelligence on the competition and how to employ tactics against the competition.
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Foillowing are some of those books: the Chinese Nine Strategic Classics, Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings, Dao De Jing and ZhuangZi .
There's no proper way to develop and implement a strategy as long as you do it and prevail.
Whether you comply w/ Jiang Tai Gong or Sunzi mode of thinking. One has remember the following: The more ambitious the goal is, the more complex the challenge is and the deeper the competition becomes.
The difference between the JTG 6's Strategies and Sz's AoW is the way the material is explained. Jiang Tai Gong explains his concepts in terms of Q&A. While Sunzi presents his concepts in terms of transitional situations from start to finish.
I believe both books are equal in content. JTG is great in terms of giving the purpose for creating a revolution. @ the end, it is all about getting it done right
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A lot of people including myself are students of Sunzi essay. But the learning setup of JTG's Six Strategies is easy to understand the "strategic thinking" process. JTG's essay contains most of Sunzi principles.
Following are some of the strategic thinkers who read and utilizes Jiang Tai Gong's classic in their endeavor:
* Fan-Li;
* Wang Xu (ran the 1st strategy learning institude in ancient China);
* Sun Bin (great grandson of Sunzi);
* Zhang Liang (strategic thinker of the Post Qin and Early Han dynasty); and
* Current PRC military professionals.
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