SUN TZU WAS WRONG A Field Guide for Dysfunctional Leadership THE WAR YOU’RE IN, NOT THE WAR YOU WANT Sun Tzu wrote about disciplined armies, competent generals, and wars that could be planned. That is not the war you’re in. This book is for people operating inside organizations where leadership is accidental, authority is detached from responsibility, and strategy collapses the moment it meets reality. Where promotions reward survival instead of competence, orders arrive half-formed and too late, and morale dies quietly in meetings no one remembers scheduling. Sun Tzu Was Wrong is not a leadership book. It’s a field manual for enduring leadership failure . Written in the tone of a recovered Army FM—annotated, stained, and quietly furious—this guide documents what actually happens when doctrine meets dysfunction. It doesn’t teach you how to win. It teaches you how to recognize the battlefield you’re already standing on. Inside, you’ll find: Why no plan survives first contact with That Guy - How accountability evaporates upward - The mechanics of being promoted anyway - The difference between authority, responsibility, and blame - Why morale doesn’t collapse—it gets reassigned - How organizations fight the wrong war with the wrong leaders using the wrong lessons This book doesn’t offer inspiration. It offers recognition . If you’ve ever sat through leadership training that contradicted your lived experience… If you’ve watched incompetence rise while competence learned to stay quiet… If you’ve realized the system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly as designed… Then this manual was written for you. Forget the war you were trained for. This is the war you’re in.