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The Complete Strategy Collection

Written by: Sun Tzu,Niccolo Machiavelli,Miyamoto Musashi,Carl von Clausewitz,Kautilya Chanakya
Narrated by: Michael Bower,Tom Chandler
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The Complete Strategy Collection, a compilation of ancient and historical philosophies, will increase your knowledge of strategy, conflict, and adversity throughout the ages, giving you valuable insight into the past while opening a window to the future. Although each of the works can be considered a manual or diagram for war or engaging in physical combat, the life skills embodied in each can be adapted to everyday life in modern society.

  • In story one, The Art of War, Sun Tzu defines strategies to overcome your opponent.
  • Story two, The Prince, offers practical solutions to some of life’s most common problems based on moral and ethical values.
  • The Book of Five Rings (story three) applies strategies used in physical encounters to business, relationships, and de-escalation of conflicts.
  • The ideologies of war and military strategy in Story Four, On War, clearly depict how motivations influence outcomes.
  • Arthashastra, the final story, brings the philosophical strategies to the forefront and lays the foundation for current policies, systems, and attitudes.

As you listen on, you will be enthralled by the complexity of strategies and how useful these strategies are to modern culture, government, and military strategy. You will gain the knowledge to guide you in your everyday activities to help you beat out your opponents, position yourself for success, avoid conflict, and overcome adversity. You will see how these classic writings have been used throughout history by warriors, kings, diplomats, and businessmen to give them opportunities otherwise deemed impossible.

Listen on, and learn how you, too, can take advantage of the strategies of war.

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  • Jackie Harwood
  • 2022-10-31
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Awesome Collection - Leadership Must

These are some of the best classics that I’ve found. They are full of ancient wisdom and presented collectively they opened up my eyes to many interesting leadership principles.

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  • Rachel A.
  • 2022-05-24
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Complicated yet necessary

Complicated yet necessary - the ideas as presented in each of the books in this collection may seem complicated but are powerful and in my opinion, necessary for everyone to succeed in life, business, finances, relationships, etc. Thankful for the audio version of these books, I feel blessed to have this knowledge infused into my brain. These influential authors and personas throughout history have laid the foundation for others and all we have to do is follow the tenets they have defined for us.
These concepts though are not to be taken lightly. The nature of them is deep and thought-provoking. I am certain I will go back to this audiobook again and again each time getting new and refreshed insight into how to navigate this complicated and challenging world we live in. I see new opportunities opening to me just by my understanding of how to overcome adversity and better position myself for success.

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  • Savvy Singh
  • 2023-07-09

Good Collection but painful to listen

The audiobook is like reading from a list of 1, 2. 3. which i am not sure what the script is leading to but definitely not a good structure.

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  • Tony L. Schley
  • 2023-06-12

An excellent compilation

This work is well worth a listen, but it is a marathon…not a sprint. Sun Tzu penned a masterpiece that should be required reading in high school. Machiavelli, the manual on how to exploit human nature. Musashi channeled his inner Mandalorian because it is the way. Clausewitz and his well-known maxim about war and politics continues to be correct. Chanakya finishes the tome off with the proper operations of a State. Have plenty of time blocked off for this, but I think it’s worth the effort.

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  • Patrick
  • 2022-06-03
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Great Value

I love this collection! Great value, great quality of narration and a good addition to my library.

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  • Ian F
  • 2023-08-09

First three books are good. That’s it

The first three books I have read before and listening to them kept me enthralled. But the last two books, I listened to 2 hours of book four and then about 30 minutes of book five. I am so glad I didn’t spend the last 30 plus hours on those two books
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  • Christian Burchett
  • 2023-01-29

Fantastic Deal

This is a well-done narration of all five books mentioned. Multiple narrators. Content is, of course, legendary material.

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