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Award-winning historian and global strategist Gregory R. Copley draws from decades of experi-ence advising political and military leadership to offer a holistic and balanced view of simple success strategies, with 28 maxims for survival and prosperity in the advancing wave of social, technological, and environmental change we now face. Not since Sun-tzu's The Art of War has a blueprint for success offered so much to so many, with lessons that speak to every walk of life. In The Art of Victory, we learn that victory itself begins with a single act. . . is the principal goal of a society...is beyond the power of any individual. . . is never created or sustained by weakness. . . can never be total, and this is its beauty. . . cannot be bought or sold; it can only be won. . . and much more.
From the halls of political power to the corporate boardroom to the living room, the timeless lessons in The Art of Victory will ensure that individuals and societies not just survive but thrive in the new century.
编辑推荐 "A masterful, thought-provoking look at conflict and the critical grand strategy of winning."-- W. E. B. Griffin
"I know what it takes to get on top and to stay there, and Copley shows how it's done at every level of society, and why it's the critical skill we must all understand. The Art of Victory is the tour-de-force on leadership and success which every business leader should read."-- Fred Turner, former CEO and current honorary Director, McDonald's Corporation
"I know what it takes to get on top and to stay there, and Copley shows how it's done at every level of society, and why it's the critical skill we must all understand. The Art of Victory is the tour-de-force on leadership and success which every business leader should read."-- Fred Turner, former CEO and current honorary Director, McDonald's Corporation
"The Art of Victory is an eye-opening study of the strategic realities of man's eternal challenges. . . . Gregory Copley, our only conscious grand strategist and exponent of psychological strategy, provides vital new insights into the key challenges facing us today: terrorism and globalism. If Sun-tzu's The Art of War is the marshal's baton in the knapsack of every soldier, then the beautifully written The Art of Victory should be the secret strength of all who wish to lead society."-- Yossef Bodansky, author of the New York Times bestsellers Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America and The Secret History of the Iraq War
"Gregory Copley has defined in this unique and important book the scope of what victory really is, and how it can be sustained and nurtured."-- General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, and former U.S. Secretary of State
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Prologue
The Emerging Global Revolution
Turn and take one last look around at your life, at the life we humans have built over the past few thousand years. It is already gone. The granite columns of antiquity remain, though they crumble, and humanity, more vast in its numbers, remembers little of its past. This great upheaval we see today is how the epochs change.
Our ego, our strong and vital sense of self, tells us that this era of change is different from all past human experience, that the future is unchartable and unmanageable. But that is not so. We can shape the future, as we have always done, perhaps more so now than ever before. There are golden times again for us to make.
And yet we are in the eye of the hurricane, an Age of Global Transformation, a pivotal time for humanity. The pace of change has been accelerating, and not just in science and technology: Human numbers are surging, and flooding into urban, mostly coastal, populations. As with organisms at any level, increasing the population within a confined space generates activity, friction, heat. We cling to the known world, but are also fixated by the promises and fears of the future. But we have forgotten that in the past mankind was more aware of the tools of survival with which nature equipped us.
It is approaching four decades since Alvin Toffler, in Future Shock, noted that humanity was entering an age when the pace, scale, and embracing nature of change would be overwhelming. Add to that the impact of compounded population growth, coupled with climate change. Little wonder that much of humanity feels a deep sense of unease, and searches for answers, though futurists John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene, writing in Megatrends 2000 in 1990, optimistically forecast "a period of stunning technological innovation, unprecedented economic opportunity, surprising political reforms, and great cultural rebirth."
They were
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