I think in modern society, Sun Tzu's art of war is quite enlightening to management, because the competition among enterprises is a special economic war without announcement. Sun Tzu's Art of War is a classical military masterpiece of China. It is a scientific summary of the practical experience of ancient war by Sun Wu, a great strategist at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, which reveals the universal law of war and has rich dialectical thoughts. Therefore, Sun Tzu's Art of War also has universal guiding significance for modern "commercial warfare" and management. Sun Tzu said in "The Plan": "Who is the master? Who can? What is heaven and earth? What is the law? Who is stronger? Who practices foot soldiers? Who is the reward and punishment? I know if I will win. " These seven aspects are the factors that determine the outcome of the war, and they are also important issues that enterprises should seriously analyze and study when facing the market and implementing business strategies. This sentence alone contains the requirements of competition for the upper management, managers, market situation, policies and systems, personnel, work efficiency and reward system. Many readers don't understand the sentence "A soldier learns slowly, but he doesn't see wisdom for a long time" in Sun Tzu's Art of War. It is necessary to make further explanation. Cao Cao noticed this sentence and said, "Although clumsy, it has the merit of quick victory. If you don't see it, you have nothing to say. " Du Mu's Note: "I am quick-witted but quick-witted." (See "The Eleven Sons of Song Dynasty" above. ) pointing out that "clumsiness" refers to the commander's "wit", he thinks that although the commander lacks wit, he can act quickly and win. Zhang Jingyang's Miscellaneous Poems: "Skillfulness is not enough, but slowness is the name" (see Selected Works). His understanding of this sentence is the same as that of Cao Cao and others. However, later generations did not agree. As a representative of the Qing Dynasty, he said: "It is clumsy to cover for a long time, but quick is clever." This means that there is no problem of clumsy and fast, clever and long-term opposition. Since it is clumsy, it is long. Since you are smart, you must be quick. It is impossible to be witty and quick. So "slow speed" is interpreted as "losing because of too fast". Does "smart" mean speed and "clumsy" mean "long"? Can't make such an absolute judgment. Clumsiness and clumsiness, compared with cleverness, should not be interpreted as failure here. Joe had two levels of skill and cleverness in ancient China. The cleverness of "skillful work" in the preface to Zhou Li's examination refers to the cleverness of skills; The cleverness in Sun Tzu's Art of War Jiugongge refers to cleverness, that is, clever planning. People's intelligence can be divided into big intelligence and small intelligence. Laozi said, "Clever is clumsy." This kind of clumsiness, seemingly clumsiness, is actually smart, and it is also a big smart. On the contrary, some cleverness is small, which, from a big perspective, is sometimes just clumsy. Mozi Luwen said: "The loser thinks he is smart." "Qiao" here refers to skill, which is a kind of small. Mozi believes that it is clumsy and unwise to use such a small size as the basis for waging war. We sometimes say that someone is smart but not smart, which also means that he is good at being small but not smart. In this way, clumsiness may not be too fast, but cleverness will take a long time. Clumsiness and agility and cleverness are not completely impossible. There are two pairs of interrelated categories that need attention: one is cleverness, and the other is long speed. Cleverness is the subjective factor of the commander, and long-term speed is the objective effect of military action. These two categories cross each other, and there can be four situations: clever speed, clever time, clumsy speed and clumsy time. Of these four situations, the best is undoubtedly fast speed, and the worst is of course slow time. It is easy for people to choose between the two. The hardest choice is to be skillful for a long time and slow for a long time. It is through the comparison of these two situations that Sun Tzu made the choice of taking time rather than long. This is because, in his view, "those who have fought for the country for a long time have not", so they should not be tricky; But "speed" can often make up for the shortcomings of "clumsiness" and achieve the effect of surprise and attack. Sun Tzu said this to emphasize the important role of speed in winning or losing a war. His statement is not contradictory. Therefore, we say that Cao Cao and Du Fu's notes are correct, but they are not detailed. What you said was lost in absolutism. But it should be admitted that Sun Tzu's view is reasonable and not comprehensive. Sun Tzu said, "There are 700,000 people who spend hundreds of thousands of miles on the war, and the people have to pay for it. The public service costs thousands of dollars a day, and the internal and external turmoil is incompetent on the road" (Chang Zhang). The war is protracted and the country cannot bear it, so it is appropriate to make a quick decision. This is its reasonable side. Its incompleteness lies in that he only saw the harm of "long time" and did not see the benefits of "long time". He didn't see that this "long time" is not only harmful to me, but also to the enemy, not to mention that when this "long time" does more harm to the enemy than to himself, it is a kind of benefit to me. It can be seen that it is one-sided to adopt a completely exclusive attitude towards "dragon" Li Shimin and Li Jing in the Tang Dynasty saw this mystery, and theoretically put forward the strategic ideas of "pursuing advantages and avoiding disadvantages" and "avoiding its sharpness and persevering". In the Ming Dynasty, Yu wrote "A Quick Decision", arguing that after the unification of the world, it was not too late to pay attention to cleverness and open contention, and attack five places around ten places, striving for a "safe picture". I don't entirely agree with Sun Tzu. In modern times, Li Hongzhang and others have raised sustainability to the strategic level. The status of "enduring" has improved a lot since the grandson. Later, Comrade Mao Zedong put forward the strategic and tactical thought of lasting strategy and quick decision in campaigns and battles, which dialectically unified persistence and quick decision. Their exposition on protracted war reflects people's deepening understanding of the law of war.