All of Sun Tzu's strategies in The Art of War have been adopted by American businesses to succeed. The first chapter of The Art of War is "Laying Plans" which has five basic factors: moral law, heaven, earth, commander, method and discipline. In business the moral law means one's mission or goal. Heaven is comparable to external forces such as the market and addictions. The Earth would be the scene of actions such as people, place, product and process included in production. The commander is leadership like a sponsor or an art degree. Method and discipline are the guiding principles similar to ethics, laws and company policies. Sun Tzu said: “These five heads should be familiar to every general; he who knows them will be victorious; he who does not know them will fail” (Tzu 2). Basically, what this means and how businesses relate to it is that before you do anything you evaluate all your business options. “Waging War” is the second chapter and informs companies that to be successful you have to make the winning move, which requires limiting the cost of competition and conflict. For a company to start any project it must have a sufficient amount of funds. Companies must estimate the necessary resources such as people, time and materials. Business people make sure the budget is accurate. Too much funding would be a waste of resources, but too little could leave the project incomplete. In turn, if resources run out and cannot be replenished, the organization would go bankrupt. In the third chapter, “Attack with Stratagem,” companies learned that the source of strength is not company size, but unity, along with the ability of five fundamental factors. In American business... half the paper...." When choosing a strategy you must consider how it could benefit the company, the individual, make profits and, above all, know the competitors and their weaknesses. The strategies that I chose have all these qualities that are vital in any business venture. Works Cited Armstrong, Jason "Sun Tzu's Art of War Interpreted for Business: Applying Budo Lessons to Your Martial Arts Business." . N.p., 2011. Web. 1 May 2012.s.com/reading/article.php?id=500>.Newbert, Joe. “The Art of War for Business Analysts.” Tzu, Sun. The Art of War. Ed. Shawn Connors. Trans. Lionel Giles. Classic Collector's United States of America: El Paso Norte Press Special Edition, 2009. Print.