Analysis makes managers successful. It makes it easy to outstrip the competition. Analysis is power. Analysis discovers opportunities and focuses your energy. From The Art of Management For Sun Tzu, competition is the art of seeing.
Every situation has strengths and weaknesses.
The difficult part is seeing where they are. Sun Tzu taught that success comes from identifying your strengths and capitalizing on them. You beat the competition by taking advantage of your opportunities. As Sun Tzu explains in more detail in a later chapter, guarding against weakness keeps you in the game. However, you don t build success by eliminating weaknesses.