Analyzing Zhuge Liang's Wisdom from the Perspective of Modern Business Warfare

Author: Zhang Xiaoli
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: In the year 207 AD, six times, Liu Bei visited Zhuge Liang at his thatched cottage, seeking advice on matters of state. Zhuge Liang impressed Liu Bei with his "Lungdui Strategy," and from then on, at the age of twenty-seven, Zhuge Liang began to assist Liu Bei. Zhuge Liang's guidance greatly improved Liu Bei's situation. Liu Bei transformed from having no more than a thousand soldiers and only Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as generals to later founding the Shu Kingdom, forming a triangular alliance with Sun Quan and Cao Cao. All of this was inseparable from Zhuge Liang's contributions. In the year 223 AD, Liu Bei passed away, and his son Liu Shan succeeded him, enfeoffing Zhuge Liang as the Marquis of Wuxiang and concurrently appointing him as the Governor of Yizhou, granting him supreme military and political authority. To fulfill his lifelong dream of unifying the Central Plains, Zhuge Liang, at the height of his prime, passed away in the military camp at Zhaozhangyuan at the age of fifty-four, posthumously honored with the title "Loyal and Martial." The grandeur of talent in the Three Kingdoms era was not only due to the abundance of skilled individuals, each excelling in their own fields, but also because of the convergence and mobility of talent. At that time, great minds not only focused on the loss or gain of territory but also placed greater emphasis on the loss or gain of talent. Zhuge Liang, who valued practicality, also explored and summarized the theory of talent management, greatly enriching the thought of ancient Chinese personnel management. In the chapter "Jin Hou" of "The Art of War," Zhuge Liang proposed fifteen principles for military leadership and governance: