The Art of War: Winning Without Fighting
Sun Tzu's Timeless Strategies for Modern Life, Work, Business, and RelationshipsBy Ro Ko
Length3h 54m
About this audiobook
What if the most useful book ever written about strategy, competition, and human nature was composed 2,500 years ago - and almost nobody is applying it to their actual life today?
Each of Sun Tzu's thirteen original chapters is brought to life across four domains of modern existence:
Work and career
Business and entrepreneurship
Relationships
Your own mind
Each chapter opens with a plain-language summary of Sun Tzu's original thinking, distils his ideas into clear actionable principles, and then applies them directly and specifically to the situations you actually face. Every chapter ends with Field Notes - practical exercises that move you from reading to doing.
The battlefield is different now. The principles are not.
Audiobook details
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GenreSelf-Help, Philosophy
Length3 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
9Manoeuvring
2Introduction
10Variation of Tactics
3Laying Plans
11The Army on the March
4Waging War
12Terrain
5Attack by Stratagem
13The Nine Situations
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6Tactical Positioning
14Attack by Fire
7Energy & Momentum
15The Use of Intelligence
8Weak Points & Strong
16Conclusion
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