Analysis Of The Pre-Qin Military Strategist's Management Philosophy

World's market is becoming more unpredictable,especial at this time of the smart economic era. It caused by the deepening reform of the Chinese economic system restructuring, spreading use of the modern enterprise management system. Thus traditional managements can't keep up with today's changing world. The market is also urging the combination of philosophy and management day after day. At the same time, Chinese scholars have been noticing the relationship between Management Science and ancient Chinese philosophy and have been revalued the Ancient Chinese Military Strategist Thoughts, a key link in ancient Chinese management philosophy, which can play an important role in today's competitive market, realizing that the wisdom of the Ancient Chinese Military Strategist Thoughts can provide construction and suggestion for administration such as business running, criminal investigation etc. by comprehensive exploring and understanding of them. The purpose of this thesis is exploring four aspects of the Ancient Chinese Military Strategist Thoughts through some of the relevant researches. The four aspects are:EssentialismWhen talking about basic aspects of management, the pre-Qing Military Strategist play a priority for Dao which means the road walked by men as well as the so-called line. On Dao your country can survive while against Dao your country will downfall which means a state's prosperity or decline depends on Dao. As Strategist's Thought was shaped by fight among states during the war, so these military strategist study the Dao of war on the level of a state's survival and put the state's interest on the top priority. Sun Zi, a bright star Military Strategist among them, said:Military action is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safty or to ruin. Other thought such as take Dao as priority, Safeguard the state and it's citizens, look upon your soldiers as your own beloved sons, make one's country rich and build up its military forces strong etc..CognitionismOn this point, we will study their thoughts further by the following aspects:an idea of looking war on the level of overall situation, process consciousness, thinking with dialectical. From the management aspects, the cognition of the Strategists proved out of great strategy way of thinking, overall view for the situation, and the ability of controlling the situation. The way of thinking the war of these Strategists had a common character which means fight is not for fight, but fight for country's strategy. Every kind of thinking of the Strategist puts country's interest as top priority. So war is a continuation of politics and govern an army connected closely with administer a country DecisionismLooking for strategy and you will have many plan to choose which you need to differentiate and value those plans to work out the best one. When comparing plans, Sun Zi had talked about this and he said Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans; the next best is to isolate him from his allies through diplomatic means; the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field; and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities which means the overall cost must be considered when choosing a plan In the process of implementing a strategic management, you should choose the plan that cost least while keeping fighting advantage and its basic thought is connected with The supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting which also means try one's best to control its spending to reach the goal of its strategy.JingjieThe management idea of a Strategist certainly influenced by schools of thought, thus harmony consciousness become the highest Jingjie(means standard) among them. Harmony is a common proposal among pre-Qin schools of thought and become an important part of traditional Chinese culture. And we human being had been working assiduously to acquire an ideal society which we call it harmony. The Strategist's Jingjie is harmony of strength with etiquette within a man, harmony of morality with force when administer a country and harmony of man with nature.