Sun Tzu's Warrior's Rules -- for Winning Productively

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"Start the article with a quote from Sun Tzu that illustrates the idea from Ancient Chinese Revealed version." Sun Tzu's The Art of War 5:2:14-16

" Then you should provide a relevant quote from another source. Currently I use http://thinkexist.com/quotes”  Gary Gagliardi

Situation: The primary purpose of any article should be to increase the desire of people to learn more about its principles. Describe the problem or challenges that the principles address here. This usually only one paragraph long. The situation section should explain when it is appropriate to apply these principles and will be used later on to help people find the right principles to address a current challenge. 

Opportunity: Discuss the opportunity and benefits of learning these principles, what they will help us to do better and why. This section is usually only one paragraph as well. Often this section refers to others related principles in The Rule Book or other articles on the site or elsewhere.  The public articles on our site or others are shown simply as links. References to other Rule Book principles are described generally followed by a link to their number and title in parentheses  (7.2 Strategic Standards).

Warrior's Rules: This section lists the specific rules  involved. The standard is to use a number list in this section for rules. This allows us to refer to specific rules withing S-RULE articles as 1.1.1.1 or 1.0.0.1. Currently, The Rule Book is limited to three levels of articles. Adding one level of rules within articles creates the fourth level and a four digit description. 

1. Put each rules in italics. After each principle, explain it in no more than one paragraph.  After the last sentence of the description, list any related articles in parentheses, for example, for an principle related to listening  (2.0 Developing Perspective, 3.0 Identifying Opportunities).
2. Don't get to detailed. Rather than get too detailed in a single article or listed rules, break concepts up into separate articles.  For second level articles (-.X.-), this list may be a summary of other articles which are then expanded as the third level (-.-.X). level of articles. The aim is to maximize the result of reading not the amount of information involved just as aim is about maximizing our decisions (4.0 Leveraging Probability, 5.0 Minimizing Mistakes).
3. Separate out examples.  Rather than use examples in this section, save them as illustrations for the next section. The description here is a simple and direct as possible just as move is creating the best response.  (6.0 Situation Response, 7.0 Creating Momentum).
4. Expect to add to the listed rules after completing the Illustration section. In using these principles to address a specific problem, we often identify rules that we missed. This is the next stage just as claim is he utilizing and protecting stage of the process. (8.0 Winning Rewards, 9.0 Using Vulnerability).

Illustration: Here, we illustrate the ideas above giving examples. Sometimes this illustration will provide separate examples for each listed rules, but working through a specific problem, such as finding a job, opening a business, dealing with a relations, building a sports team, and so on--is also often a better illustration. This entire article is, of course, such an illustration.

1. Start with the rule being illustrated in italics. Illustrations can be simple paragraphs, but ideally, they repeat the principles above in a list. 
2. Don't get to detailed. Just repeat the principle above but instead of describing it generally, describe it in a the context of the specific challenge that people can relate to. 
3. Separate out examples.  This creates the separate section of examples we want and show readers one way to use the principles above. 
4. Potentially add to these listed principles after completing the Illustration section. In creating this list, working through a problem, it is easy to find that a step or critical related idea is missing. 

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"Start the article with a quote that illustrates the idea. There are a number of sites that provide quotes. Currently I use http://thinkexist.com/quotes”  Gary Gagliardi

"Then you should provide a relevant quote
from Sun Tzu's The Art of War with location (from Ancient Chinese Revealed." Sun Tzu's The Art of War 5:2:14-16

Situation: 

Opportunity:

Warrior's Rules:

Illustration: