Entrepreneurship, Art, and War

I'm reading the Art of War by Sun Tzu tr. Thomas Cleary,(Boston, Shambala, 2005) and seeing lots of parralels between the art of war and the art of entrepreneurship. There's good reason for this. An older meaning of entreprenur is who organizes military adventures.

We also talk of the entrepreneur as warrior as opposed to victim. A warrior sees setback as opportunity where a victim asks why this or that had to happen to him or her.

There is also an art to entrepreneuring. Dictionary.com lists among others these meanings to the word "art":

> The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

> The principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling.

> The craft or trade using these principles or methods.

> The skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.

> A branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.

> Skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.

There is another meaning to art, sneakiness, cunning, artificiality, which I suppose an entrepreneur needs to have in his arsenal, but that's not what I'm talking about here.

Entrepreneurship is the lifeblood of my professional activities. My second novel is out. Go to amazon.com and plug in my name and you'll come up with both mysteries, The Case of the Kearney Music School Murders and No Stop on Red. Neither is ready yet for the Kindle but will be.