Sun Tzu's Warrior's Rules -- for Winning Productively

The Warrior's Rule Book is SOSI's systematic explanation of the rules of strategy developed by Sun Tzu.

The Rule Book consists of over two hundred and thirty articles describing over a thousand interlinked Warrior's Rules. Rules are written generically to apply to any competitive arena (business, personal life, career, sports, relationships,  etc.) but with illustrations drawn from all these areas.

Warrior training does not entail memorizing all these rules. Training in these rules is designed to develop a gut instinct for how they work together. Rules are interlinked because they describe a comprehensive conceptual mental model.

Rule Book Structure

Warrior's Rule Book acticles are arranged into nine categories (see illustration above). These categories flow logically from one to the other. When you see a link preceded by a number on our site, it links to a Rule Book article. The number identifying each article describes where it appears in this structure. So the article 2.1.3 Strategic Deception is the third article extending the general rules of 2.1 Information Value, which is the first article in the category of 2.0 Developing Perspective. The organization of articles centers around the core concept of strategic positioning (1.0 Strategic Positioning). The other eight categories follow the Progress Cycle of Listen->Aim->Move->Claim (1.8 Progress Cycle). You can see a outline of Rule Book articles here or a dynamic list of articles here.

The articles are being updated to standard internal structure to make their rules easier to apply. This structure describes 1) a general principle, 2) the situation, 3) the opportunity, 4) the list of Warrior's Rules themselves, and 5) an illustration of the application of each of those rules to a specific competitive situation.

Accessing the Rule Book

A single new or updated article is published daily in Today's Article on Warrior's Rules, which appears on our front page. Each of these articles is available for 24 hours. SOSI Members can access any Rule Book article at any time. Public version of articles may not include all sections available to SOSI Members. SOSI is constructing various tools to help members find the most appropriate articles needed to meet their current strategic situation. We are also making The Rule Book accessible from portable devices.