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Here’s this week’s update for Sun-Tzu Sunday.  Sun-Tzu was a military strategist of ancient China.   Every Sunday this summer, I’m presenting an excerpt from his treatise The Art of War.  This week’s entry comes from the eleventh chapter, entitled The Nine Kinds of Ground.  This passage is part of the chapter dealing with troops in desperate straits, but I think it applies to modern-day workers:

They are alert

Without needing

Discipline;

They act

Without needing

Instructions;

They are devoted

Without needing

A compact;

They are loyal

Without needing

Orders.

These seem to be the traits of a loyal, motivated, mature individual.  Funny, but I always seem to work better when I’m given more freedom.  In other words, I don’t need someone looking over my shoulder, telling me what to do every minute.  I can police myself.  Treat me fairly, and I’ll go through a wall for you.  I think that I would have liked serving for Sun-Tzu.

Are you like one of Sun-Tzu’s soldiers?

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