Management

management of few. It is a matter of organization.

And to control many is the same as to control few.

This is a matter of formation and signals."

Though Sun Tzu was speaking of "control" as a function of military leadership, his words are also applicable to the modern corporation. This quotation will be considered in the context of how larger, for-profit, corporate entities (many of which have a global as opposed to a national or even regional presence) require effective strategies to ensure the "management of many."

The multinational, the conglomerate, the transnational - these forms of the corporation are, by definition, multifaceted organizations which produce, distribute, sell, market, and otherwise control the flow of goods or services across often disparate cultures and far-flung national borders. Such entities are characterized by the necessity of managing the activities of a wide range and variety of workers with vastly different skills and job tasks. Often, it is assumed that as a corporation increases in size and scope of activity, the task of organizing and managing the workers, their productivity, and the coordinating mechanisms that ensure synergies between these units also increases in complexity. Sun Tzu's words, as produced above, suggest that this is not the case.

In essence, Sun Tzu is arguing in this brief quotation from The Art of War (presented in a section titled "Energy")

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)

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