11.024 Throw your troops into situations where there is no...

Throw your troops into situations where there is no escape, where they will die before escaping. When they are about to die, what can they not do? They will exert their full strength.

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Throw your troops into situations where there is no escape, where they will die before escaping. When they are about to die, what can they not do? They will exert their full strength.

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When one's life is at risk there is nothing that that individual will not do to save it.

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Sun Tzu said, "Throw your troops into situations where there is no escape, where they will die before escaping. When they are about to die, what can they not do? They will exert their full strength."

The general knows that desperation will bring out the best in the best of her men and women. And that in this type of situation the others will follow their lead. A few hundred troops can hold off thousands if there is cohesiveness and if the ground and heaven work as their allies.

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Is this necessary///

If we know that this approach works under certain circumstances do we consciously have to create it.

Or would leadership that is in accord with the way and heaven and ground naturally find success irregardless.

I would see this appraoch as one way of winning but not the only way.

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Hold to nothing

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Originally posted by sonshi
Throw your troops into situations where there is no escape, where they will die before escaping. When they are about to die, what can they not do? They will exert their full strength.

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