https://medium.com/@shahmm/building-a-great-business-and-the-art-of-war-strategy-part-01-b8e4db611d4f

https://tweakyourbiz.com/global/the-art-of-war

https://www.fastcompany.com/3021122/fighting-your-business-battles-6-lasting-lessons-from-sun-tzus-art-of-war

– Being prepared at what you do can be the difference between success and failure when things go wrong

– Your king is your own customers. If you care for them, they will care for your project. Anticipate their needs, desires, wants and fulfill them with an unbiased mind.

– Understand and respect the scope, ownerships and accountabilities of the project you work on.

– Be subtle and diplomatic. You can only learn when you listen. But always be prepared to answer and follow up.

– Share efforts with other people in the project by offering free help, as that will come back as an investement.

– Focus on key elements of a production which are the least organized or efficient.

– Validate and qualify your resources before taking on a plan.

– Invest into a plan only if you are sure it can be completed successfully.

– Value a project’s requirements and its users’ experience before the technology development itself.

– Motivate your teams by the gains in specific production investments.

– Organize tasks and teams based on their strenghts and self efficiency.

– Analyze the project’s requirements and resources. Then prioritize them accordingly.

– Observe and resolve bottlenecks, opportunities and users’ needs

– Detail a plan B as soon as you striclty commit to a detailed plan A.

– Dedicate some time and small teams to research efficient alternatives.

– Build only and always on top of stable and known cycles.

– Focus on the big items if they can resolve a lot of small ones.

– If something worked before is still worth to think out of the box.

– Combine all your team strengths into a unified collaborative effort.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/11-of-the-weirdest-solutions-to-the-fermi-paradox-456850746

From the Nebula Award-nominated short story, “They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson:

“They’re made out of meat.”

“Meat?”

“Meat. They’re made out of meat.”

“Meat?”

“There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They’re completely meat.”

“That’s impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?”

“They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don’t come from them. The signals come from machines.”

“So who made the machines? That’s who we want to contact.”

“They made the machines. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Meat made the machines.”

“That’s ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You’re asking me to believe in sentient meat.”

“I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they’re made out of meat.”

A little while later:

“They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?”

“Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat.”

“I thought you just told me they used radio.”

“They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”

“Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?”

“Officially or unofficially?”

“Both.”

“Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing.”

“I was hoping you would say that.”

“It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?”

“I agree one hundred percent. What’s there to say? ‘Hello, meat. How’s it going?’