When your competitor has more money, more customers, and a bigger name, how do you know if you can win? Most teams answer with a feeling. That is not an answer.
Around 197 AD, the warlord Cao Cao faced exactly this problem. His rival, Yuan Shao, ruled the north with an army several times larger. When Yuan Shao sent him an arrogant letter, Cao Cao asked his young advisor, Guo Jia: I want to fight him, but I am not strong enough. What should I do?
Guo Jia had once served inside Yuan Shao's camp. Instead of offering comfort, he compared the two leaders on ten specific points, then told Cao Cao which battle to fight first.
In this 22-minute audiobook, you will learn how to replace "Can we win?" with questions you can check, why a rival's behavior reveals more than its reputation, how to turn analysis into a sequence of moves, and where the framework nearly failed at the battle of Guandu.
