For over twenty years, I have been building up a wealth of valuable training material about Sun Tzu’s principles at ScienceOfStrategy.com. However, the primary purpose of its online training was to promote my services in live training. For fifteen years, the corporate customers this site attracted allowed me to travel the world and make good money teaching a system of success that I love. Eventually, it allowed me to build a worldwide network of licensed trainers. Unfortunately, that network ran into a lot of difficulties during the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8. Not long afterward, a series of health issues prevented me from continuing live training myself.
Because of my business successes in software, strategic training, and writing, I am financially independent. My books on Sun Tzu and strategy continue to sell well. However, at over seventy years of age, I no longer have the time and energy to maintain the Science of Strategy Institute, especially since I am no longer offering live training. Its online training products are still valuable. They would be worth even more if ported to phone and YouTube technology. This online training, however, makes even better financial sense when run in conjunction with live training. Corporate training is where the serious money is.
I am sending out this message to see if there is anyone among my customers interested in taking over my current website and online training products and moving them into the future. I will be glad to offer advice and co-author a book with the new owner to give him or her more credibility in the field. I will continue writing new articles on a weekly basis, but there is a lot more value in promoting Sun Tzu’s 2,500-year-old strategic principles than I can capitalize on at my stage in life. Someone younger with more energy needs to take over and continue the work that I have begun. I would love to see that person have even more success and generate more wealth than I have over the last two decades.
I am in no particular hurry to get a deal done. My primary interest is in the ability of the person taking over the Institute to make the business a success. If I have to cast a broader net to find that person, going to established corporate or strategic training companies, I will over time. I cannot say that the size of any money offered doesn’t affect my thinking, but that is because I judge the desire and ability to invest as a key indicator of future success.
If you are interested, you can contact me by replying to this article.
Gary Gagliardi
Hey Gary,
I am definitely interested in this opportunity. I have been studying Sun Tzu for 20 years and consider the text a foundation for strategic thinking (and living). I have been using it in my own life for years. I also have read several of your books, including the side-by-side translation of the text, the Warrior Class, the Amazing Secrets of Sun Tzu, and the Golden Key to Strategy. I think that the systems and principles you explore in your books (for example, the Listen-Aim-Move-Claim process) are the most comprehensive and useful of any Sun Tzu commentary I've read. I would be interested in exploring this more if you are still looking for someone. If not, please know that I appreciate your wisdom, insight, and analyses and look forward to reading more of your work. Thanks, Mark Blasini
Gary, I am very interested in continuing your legacy, Kevin Chan
kchan@pineapplehealth.org