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Content
Customers have a largely positive opinion on the content of The Art of War. Many praise its timeless principles and strategies for victory, while some express disappointment with the quality of their received copy. The text is valued for its teachings on wisdom, discipline, and interaction of power and politics.
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Customers find The Art of War highly relevant with its Taoist philosophy and strategic advice, applicable to both corporate world and everyday life. They appreciate the book's timeless wisdom and value its discussions on assessing one's own strengths and the enemy's capacities. However, some customers also mention the lengthy preface as a drawback.
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Quality
Great for tactical thinking and top down management.
It is very good and most of the principals hold true to today.
This material must be repeatedly read in order to absorb its full impact.
Assessment of your own strengths and capacities, assessment of the enemy’s strengths and capacities, the use of a range of diff... Read More
Packaging/appearance
As always, packaging and delivery was flawless.
Arrived looking and smelling like a brand new book!
Competitiveness
It is difficult to compare this book to that of machiavelli’s the prince since machiavelli’s book deals with armed conflict but... Read More
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great, good, master, new and military. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 23951.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 1,274 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 10 2024.
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It has been said that if the book was required reading for military men and women that there would be no wars
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The best version is the small 13 chapter version
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Its been translated by several authors but the small 13 chapter version is the purest and most accurate translation of the original book
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In my opinion it should be required reading for any classroom
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Its been translated by so many authors who have put their spin on its message
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Too much preface and introductioninterpretation
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However it is a little difficult to grasp the ideas and apply it to todays world without rereading the book multiple times thinking about it and discussing your ideas with others
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The timing could not be more perfect for i fear i am fighting my own warfare one of the mind and often unwitty comments from an unmentioned coworker
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