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Sun Tzu's five rules for recognizing situations that bring people together.
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This article explains how to recognize a challenge that is almost the opposite of that in the open situation. In the open situation, no one knows which path leads to a successful position. In the intersecting situation, everyone agrees on what a successful position is, but no one has the resources needed to create it. What we have discovered in the intersecting situation is that our path to success requires more resources than we have alone.