How to use the card deck for strategy planning Games to play with the card deck  Robert Cantrell, the author, is a professional strategist and a client of Atchity Editorial/Entertainment International

Core Value The Content The core value of the Art of War Sun Tzu Strategy Card Deck is in the content.  It is absolutely the most concise summary of competitive strategy available on the market.  It summarizes, in approximately 1600 words, information about all aspects of conflict strategy that other authors, in traditional books, easily use over 100,000 words to describe.  A Strategic Thinking Tool The most common way buyers use this product is as a tool to think through options.  In that role, it serves as a sort of 'strategy playbook.'  And just like the plays of a football game, the drive to the goal line may involve a series of strategy plays, one setting up the other until you succeed.  The cards are compact, easy to fit into a packet or briefcase, and can be reviewed in their entirety prior to any critical engagement – to to include those points in travel when you have to turn off all electronic equipment.  Provided you and other parties each have their own copies, the cards also provide a common strategic language. A Strategic Process Tool For the process oriented, the delineation strategies provides a means to create a strategic flow chart with the possibility of diagram options should a preceding strategy work or fail.  The conciseness of the strategies also means that during an action, for example a negotiation, you can code and communicate a shift in strategy on the fly the same way a quarterback in football can call an audible play change from the line.  (You could very literally keep an Ace up your sleeve.)  A Strategy Training Tool Trainers will find the the Art of War Sun Tzu Strategy Card Deck useful as a tool to teach all aspects of competitive strategy.  This training is backed up by a book, Understanding Sun Tzu on the Art of War, that has already found a place in the top US military leadership schools.  (The study guide page shows the linkages between the cards and the book.)  Also, the game Art of War Assertion brings many valuable aspects of strategy to the training environment that cover all functional and psychological aspects of competition.  Trainers that run war games will particularly enjoy the cards for the randomness card format presents.  Need your adversary to do something unexpected?  Pull a card and deal with it.       Home | Description | FAQs | Study Guide | Core Value | Purchase | Companion Book | Project History | Seminars Copyright © 2004 Center For Advantage – All Rights Reserved