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This is amazing. Asians helping a westerner with his business while the westerner insults a paying asian customer.
Watch the latest episode of Sun's Art Of War on business.
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<table width="600" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td width="44">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Title[/FONT]</td> <td width="10"> :</td> <td width="546">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Bringing Sun Tzu's Art of War to business competition [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="44">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By[/FONT]</td> <td width="10"> :</td> <td width="546">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT]
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="44">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Date[/FONT]</td> <td width="10"> :</td> <td width="546">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] 04 February 2010 1705 hrs (SST) [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="44">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]URL[/FONT]</td> <td width="10"> :</td> <td width="546">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainmentfeatures/view/1035294/1/.html [/FONT]</td> </tr> </tbody></table>
<table bordercolorlight="#CCCCCC" bordercolordark="#CCCCCC" width="600" align="center" border="1" bordercolor="#cccccc" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"> <tbody><tr> <td> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] SINGAPORE: Can 6th century BC military stratagem "Sun Tzu's Art of War" be applied to the modern world of business? Self-made millionaire James Sun believes so.
Sun, a finalist on hit reality show "The Apprentice", feels there are many parallels between running a business today and waging a fierce war, so it is only natural that Sun Tzu's treatise on military strategy is a strong analytical tool for entrepreneurs and business-owners.
"Business is not something to be taken lightly," Sun said. "That's great you have a passion for it [entrepreneurship], but you better be serious about it, it's like going to battle, it's like going to war."
"When you go into battle, or go into business. You have to look at the market like they are your competitors and they are willing to eat you. It's a zero sum game to an extent."
The 33-year-old Korean-American entrepreneur will apply the 6th century classic to business as the host of upcoming reality television show "Sun Tzu: War on Business", a series jointly commissioned by MediaCorp, BBC Worldwide and the Media Development Authority of Singapore.
In "Sun Tzu: War on Business", Sun travels across the world with to give companies in businesses as diverse as running a pub and wine-making corporate makeovers based on Sun Tzu's principles. Together with three local experts, Sun will study their entire business and identify the problems.
Sun will not reveal these problems until the "War Room" segment, where he will give hard advice on how to improve the business and set challenges and tests for the entrepreneurs to overcome. He will then return at the end of the process to give his final comments on the future of the business.
Sun stresses that the 13-part series will not merely be about the profiles of a successful businesses, which he admits could be "a little boring", but will instead explore what makes entrepreneurs tick.
"It's a show that looks at the entrepreneur, deep in his heart, in his mind and ask hard questions about why he is doing it, how he achieved what he did and what he is going to do in the future, and my job is to use Sun Tzu's analysis to help them to get there."
The show will hinge on whether or not the entrepreneurs Sun meets with and advises actually hear him out and take him seriously. According to him, most do as he has the credentials to back it up.
"I've been an entrepreneur all my life," said Sun. "I've seen so many different kinds of companies and models I am able to really show them how to take their company to the next level."
That is no boast.
Sun's family immigrated to America in 1981 with just US$35. Without any contacts and not knowing any English, it was a huge struggle for his family to survive.
"My father literally had to take multiple jobs to put food on the table and that created a very, very deep, I guess, passion in me to really want to succeed at all costs," Sun said.
It was this passion that drove him to start his first company at 11, and his second, a technology investment firm at 18 with just S$5,000. By the time he graduated from university at 22, he had built his S$5000 startup into a S$2.2 million business. He is currently the CEO of GeoPage.com, an online search engine.
Sun is also the first Asian male to appear on American billionaire Donald Trump's business reality television show "The Apprentice" where he beat other bright sparks to emerge as the first Asian finalist in the show's history.
With the business savvy Sun at the helm, "Sun Tzu: War on Business" looks to be a very interesting series indeed.
"It's like better than NBA [a popular American basketball league], it's a real life experience," he gushed. "You want to make a million dollars? Watch the show."
"Sun Tzu: War on Business" debuts February 9, at 9.30pm on Channel NewsAsia.
- CNA/ha
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Watch the latest episode of Sun's Art Of War on business.
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<table bordercolorlight="#CCCCCC" bordercolordark="#CCCCCC" width="600" align="center" border="1" bordercolor="#cccccc" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"> <tbody><tr> <td> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] SINGAPORE: Can 6th century BC military stratagem "Sun Tzu's Art of War" be applied to the modern world of business? Self-made millionaire James Sun believes so.
Sun, a finalist on hit reality show "The Apprentice", feels there are many parallels between running a business today and waging a fierce war, so it is only natural that Sun Tzu's treatise on military strategy is a strong analytical tool for entrepreneurs and business-owners.
"Business is not something to be taken lightly," Sun said. "That's great you have a passion for it [entrepreneurship], but you better be serious about it, it's like going to battle, it's like going to war."
"When you go into battle, or go into business. You have to look at the market like they are your competitors and they are willing to eat you. It's a zero sum game to an extent."
The 33-year-old Korean-American entrepreneur will apply the 6th century classic to business as the host of upcoming reality television show "Sun Tzu: War on Business", a series jointly commissioned by MediaCorp, BBC Worldwide and the Media Development Authority of Singapore.
In "Sun Tzu: War on Business", Sun travels across the world with to give companies in businesses as diverse as running a pub and wine-making corporate makeovers based on Sun Tzu's principles. Together with three local experts, Sun will study their entire business and identify the problems.
Sun will not reveal these problems until the "War Room" segment, where he will give hard advice on how to improve the business and set challenges and tests for the entrepreneurs to overcome. He will then return at the end of the process to give his final comments on the future of the business.
Sun stresses that the 13-part series will not merely be about the profiles of a successful businesses, which he admits could be "a little boring", but will instead explore what makes entrepreneurs tick.
"It's a show that looks at the entrepreneur, deep in his heart, in his mind and ask hard questions about why he is doing it, how he achieved what he did and what he is going to do in the future, and my job is to use Sun Tzu's analysis to help them to get there."
The show will hinge on whether or not the entrepreneurs Sun meets with and advises actually hear him out and take him seriously. According to him, most do as he has the credentials to back it up.
"I've been an entrepreneur all my life," said Sun. "I've seen so many different kinds of companies and models I am able to really show them how to take their company to the next level."
That is no boast.
Sun's family immigrated to America in 1981 with just US$35. Without any contacts and not knowing any English, it was a huge struggle for his family to survive.
"My father literally had to take multiple jobs to put food on the table and that created a very, very deep, I guess, passion in me to really want to succeed at all costs," Sun said.
It was this passion that drove him to start his first company at 11, and his second, a technology investment firm at 18 with just S$5,000. By the time he graduated from university at 22, he had built his S$5000 startup into a S$2.2 million business. He is currently the CEO of GeoPage.com, an online search engine.
Sun is also the first Asian male to appear on American billionaire Donald Trump's business reality television show "The Apprentice" where he beat other bright sparks to emerge as the first Asian finalist in the show's history.
With the business savvy Sun at the helm, "Sun Tzu: War on Business" looks to be a very interesting series indeed.
"It's like better than NBA [a popular American basketball league], it's a real life experience," he gushed. "You want to make a million dollars? Watch the show."
"Sun Tzu: War on Business" debuts February 9, at 9.30pm on Channel NewsAsia.
- CNA/ha
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