Researching Strategies

One of the best strategist in history, be it military, business, or otherwise, was the ancient Chinese General Sun Tzu ca. 400 - 200 BC. "The Art Of War", written by this general more than 2000 years ago, seems as relevant today as ever. His ideas on being adaptive and "formless" are informative because as he notes, if your competition does not know where to defend or plan to defend against you, then he will have to distribute his resources thinly. You then can concentrate your resources against a single point, focusing action toward a single objective and succeed with a much higher probability.