Sun Tzu's Philosophy And Its Inspiration To The Business Leaders

Sun Wu is a famous strategist and military thinker in the pre-Qin Dynasty and his works "The Art of War" is the important ancient Chinese military theory work. So the reason why "The Art of War" played a very good inspiration in all the areas of modern society is a deep philosophical heritage and unique spirit of philosophy. It is based on the materialism, dialectics, and other philosophical thought in the Spring and Autumn period."The Art of War" stressed that people is the first key element of the war. As one of the representative of the thinking in the Spring and Autumn Period, it also is one of the important resources in the modern China's development strategy of "human-oriented" thinking. Sun Tzu's philosophy also contains interdependence and mutual transformation of dialectical thought both sides and how to correctly understand and handle the relationship between benefits and harm. In addition, The "posture theory" thinking of Sun Tzu should be emphasized that it is good at using and creating a favorable situation to defeat the enemy.Although "The Art of War" does not their complete philosophical system, the philosophy of Sun Tzu bring an important role in enlightening for the modern business leaders. For example:Sun Tzu of the man thought of enlightenment to human-oriented tells business leaders to unite people in order to create a high integrity, high-quality talent team with strong sense of identity; The "Direct and indirect" thinking of Sun Tzu, asks business leaders to focus on providing the market with special features compared with competitors products or services to gain competitive advantage; Sun Tzu of the "posture theory" of thinking of the Enlightenment of will tells business leaders to build soft power, in order to stimulate spiritual force of the employees and form a strong cohesive force business; The "Concept of interest" thinking of Sun Tzu, asks leader to turn the tide successfully to overcome the crisis, and even be able to call staff crisis into opportunity in the handling of crises as facing the crisis.In a word, we will put all the ancient philosophy of "The Art of War" into the modern good leadership and management theory, and further explore the important role of the philosophy of Sun Tzu in the modern business management practices and show the traditional Chinese cultural values in today's era.