Managing change: Perspectives from Sun Tzu's Art of War

Professor Wee offers some of the lessons that can be learned from this 2300-year-old Chinese master of strategy, which has shaped thinking in many Japanese and South Korean boardrooms and is now widely read by managers in China. The article examines the business value of Sun Tzu's thinking in relation to: Managing change Creating an adaptable organization The role of strategy in the change process The lessons of Sun Tzu, who may well have been the foremost military strategist of all time, are of universal value.

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