Absorb this book and you can throw out all those contemporary books about management leadership . . . Thomas Cleary's translation of Sun Tzu's 2,000-year-old 'Art of War' makes immediately relevant one of the greatest Chinese classical texts. There's not a dated maxim or vague prescription in it.
Sun Tzu has won disciples in recent years among foreign executives, diplomats, politicians, athletes, and generals because of his simple insights on how to effortlessly vanquish an opponent.
This volume of ancient Chinese wisdom is consistently rated higher than most modern leadership books.