Author Archives: David Kam

Shed off the Golden Cicada Skin

21. Shed off the Golden Cicada Skin

“Shed off the golden cicada skin” is a phrase where one creates an illusion in order to conceal one’s movements. By masking yourself, you will be able to further your own goals easier. This stratagem can help you avoid or reorganize under an illusion.
Some leaders use this stratagem by [...]

Stir the Water to Catch the Fish

20. Stir the water to catch the fish

“Stir the water to catch the fish” is a phrase where one troubles or confuses the enemy’s situation in order to take advantage of the enemy. The water is like the surrounding while the fish is like the enemy. By readjusting and changing the so called surroundings, one [...]

The 4S of Business Life

The 4S of business life is something every business might or might not go through. The 4S of business life are survive, strive, succeed, and superstar. Upon reaching each business life, they must innovate and rise in order to get to the next. If you understand the 4S of business life, you would understand your [...]

Remove the Firewood Under the Cooking Pot

19. Remove the Firewood Under the Cooking Pot

“Remove the firewood under the cooking pot” is a phrase where you try to interfere your enemies day to day operation in order to win, for how can one cook when the firewood is gone. Hinder your enemy’s daily routines, duties, supplies and equipments in order make your… [...]

Defeat the Enemy by Capturing the Chief

18. Defeat the enemy by capturing the chief

“Defeat the enemy by capturing the chief” is a “saying” that means “bringing down the chief, bringing down an entire nation”. By going against the enemy’s leader you save yourself the trouble to go through the enemy’s subordinates. The chief represents the entire organization and will collapse when… [...]