You may not be aware of it, but in both your business and personal life you are engaged constantly in some form of combat. To be successful, says the author of this guide to achieving your utmost potential, you must learn how to fight effectively. He shows you how.

The secret does not lie in phsyical confrontation or even in the use of weapons-except those that are a part of our being. No, the secret lies, as Mr. Rogers explains, in discovering how to apply the techniques and concepts of samurai warfare directly to your daily battles in your office, in your home, inside yourself.

For many years, David J. Rogers has been a student of budo, the way of the legendary Japanese knights, the samurai. Mr. Rogers is also the founder and president of a thriving human resources development firm in chicago. In this book he has combined the knowledge gained through professional experience with his understanding of the tactics of budo to come up with practical, real-life weapons that can be used to overcome anyone or anything that stands in the way of what you want to achieve. Many of these tactics and techniques are expressed through more than one hundred maxims, precepts, and epigrams which appear in the words of the anicent samurai warriors themselves.

Your opponent in your daily battle might be a business competitior, a prospective client, a sales goal, a potential employer at a job interview. It could be your own fear or depression, your own productivity, or the productivity of your staff. By mastering the concepts of the way of the samurai,and applying those concepts to your own life and career-as the author does in numerous case histories-you are more likely than ever before to find yourself on the way to the kind of success that seemed unattainable before. Fighting to Win is a most unusual, and perhaps the most valuable, book you will ever own.

For the past fifteen years, David J. Rogers has conducted seminars in sales, marketing, personal motivation, and human resource development. He lectures on human resource development in the graduate school of Roosevelt University, Chicago, and is a guest lecturer at DePaul University. He is the author of a previous book, Agency and Company: Partners in Human Resource Development.

How you can learn to use samurai battle concepts in your own struggle to succeed.

Face any opponent (or problem) head on and advance without fear.
There are four serious blocks to action. Here are directions for overcoming each of them.
How you can learn, as the warrior does, to focus on your purpose.
Ways you can cultivate the energy necessary for your daily battle.
Twenty-nine tips for overcoming the four most prevalent blccks to concentration.
How your image of yourself can become a weapon instead of the limitation it so often is.
How you can use your power and your opponent's power to achieve your objectives in almost any situation,
How to adapt some of the techniques of physical combat to the psychological and intellectual battleground of your workplace.

'David Rogers has written a unique and imaginative book, locating the key to business success in one's spiritual outlook, blending Oriental wisdom with keen psychological insight. I am sure that many people will profit from reading it.'-Harold S. Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

I bought this book years ago as a self-help to accelerate my software engineering career. I had tried others and none of them really struck me as being very useful. The book is actually exciting to read--it gets you energized. Rogers outlines a number of (Samurai) techniques that he uses to be effective in a business environment. It sounds corny but these techniques are easy to apply and work quite well. In my opinion it works well because the book is well-written, interesting and unique. Sadly the book is out of print. It is the only motivational book I've ever read that really worked and worked quite easily. -Thomas C. Duensing

Contents

Introduction
Part One Humming arrows the battle commences
Stepping onto the battlefield
Leaping into action: Mo chih ch'u
Bushido: Living and working at the gut level
Part Two Shinjutsu: the skills of the mind and heart
Ki: The spirit of the warrior
Developing Joriki, your power of concentration in action
Reaching Mushin, the samurai alternative
Slaying your emotional dragons
Part Three Gi Technique
Making the power decision
Indentifying suki, the gap
Waza: Techniques for striking your opponent
A final thought
Glossary