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Or so the readers claim. What lessons, specifically, can we derive from the Book of Five Rings that apply to modern business? If you or anyone else can elabora

• kybernetikos 9y ago
  I'm not someone with amazing business achievements to boast about but I was inspired by Musashis argument that every move should include the intention to cut your enemy. It's so easy to get caught up in the role play of tactics - thinking you are parrying or doing this or doing that and losing track of the actual goal. Its not as if your every move will succeed in cutting and that's fine but dont get so caught up in the form of what you are doing that you forget the purpose. But I didn't read the Book of Five Rings because I wanted to get good at business, I read it because Musashi seemed like a fascinating character. > The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. It also speaks to efficiency. Just like in go you don't want any of your moves to be doing just one thing.