Everyone locks up what is valuable,
but people also lock up what is most valuable in themselves. For every lock
there is a key, but one key opens many locks. This is the key to the
potential within you.
The Golden Key to Strategy, Gary Gagliardi |
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Gary Gagliardi
is the world's leading expert in explaining the principles of
strategy in everyday language. As American's leading expert on
Sun Tzu's The Art of War, he makes the science of strategy easy enough for anyone to
master. For more about Gary's books and on-line training programs, visit
www.scienceofstrategy.com.
For more about his speaking engagements, go to
www.academyofstrategy.com.
For a brief history in Gary's own words of how be began teaching Sun
Tzu and strategy,
click here.
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 Gary is the founder of the Science of
Strategy Institute, a world-wide network of strategic trainers. Gary has
personally trained the world's top
organizations in the strategic positioning. He
regularly offers
strategic insights on the breaking news on talk shows
nationwide. A world traveler and language expert, Gary is also America's leading
authority on Sun Tzu's The Art of War, the source book of all
modern military and business strategy. Gary lives in Seattle, WA.
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 In 2006, Gary's book,
The Golden
Key to Strategy, won the Ben Franklin Award as the best
self-help book of the year. In 2007, two of Gary's newest books were
chosen as
finalists for the Book of the Year award. Gary has won more
award recognition for more books in more categories from more award
groups than any other non-fiction author in the twenty-first
century. In the last few year, ten of his books on strategy have
been recognized in seven different categories: business, self-help,
philosophy, sports, career, youth non-fiction, and multicultural
books.
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Gary began studying
classical strategy over thirty years ago. In the corporate world, he
adapted the principles of strategy from their military roots to
sales, marketing, and management. Using these principles, he
built a multimillion-dollar high-tech software company into one
of the Inc. 500 fastest growing companies in America. After selling
his company, Gary
focused his energies on strategic training and writing books explaining the
principles of strategy.
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 “Over
the past 44 years on radio I’ve interviewed thousands of guests. Fewer than
one guest per decade, however, penetrated to the level I consider Highest of
the High... The latest to make that level is Gary Gagliardi, whose
translation and explanation of the wisdom of the ancient fabled Chinese
general Sun Tzu slap right up against today’s headlines and make the most
riveting kind of radio.” Barry Farber, Talk Radio Network |
 Gary's understanding of strategy allows him to quickly see relevant
issues that others miss. During his many
media interviews, Gary provides strategic analysis of political
developments, the War on Terror, and the use of strategy in
relationships, career, parenting, and so on.
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By 1992, Gary's software company was one
of the Inc. 500 fastest growing private companies in America. After he
won the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Quality Award,
Trendsetter Award, and became an Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.
Gary's customers and partners--AT&T, GE, Motorola, IBM, Boeing, and
others--began inviting him to speak at their conferences and to
their employees about strategic concepts.
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Gary's work is popular all over the world especially
in Asia. He was once the guest
of Jardins, Hong Kong's original trading company, the "noble house."
While in Hong Kong, Gary was given the honor of firing the cannon
that signals noontime for the territory. Until he and his wife,
Becky, were taken out to the harbor by a military escort, Gary
didn't realized that the event was witnessed by thousands of
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In 2001, Gary was diagnosed with a deadly cancer and saw his
fellow patients literally die because they didn't have the
decision-making skills that he was teaching to the world's largest
organizations. As he recovered, he decided to re-orient his training
to help people use the science of strategy in their
everyday lives so that when the time came to make a
life-and-death decision, they would be prepared.  |
 Today, Gary is recognized for his many breakthrough works explaining the
science of strategy in simple terms and the
secrets of The Art of War. In 1999, he created a new
breakthrough translation of the ancient Chinese that demonstrated the
equation-like precision of the original work. His transliteration, along with the resulting translation, is
known today as The Art of War
Plus The Ancient Chinese Revealed, winner of the 2003 Independent
Publishers' Book Award. Since then, nine more of his books have won
award-recognition from a variety of groups in seven different
categories.
You may have heard Gary's name as an author in computers
and technology. Yes, it is the same Gary Gagliardi. Gary wrote a number of
books about computers,
information management, and high technology the first published by Bantam Book
and others by Addison-Wellesley. He continues writing on other topics, but
his work unrelated to strategy is only published on-line.
Gary was born into a military family. His uncle was
John Ralph Gagliardi, the first American serviceman killed in the Japanese
attack on the Philippines, the day after Pearl Harbor. His father,
Franklin Gagliardi, was serving in the Philippines with his brother and
became one of the few survivors of the Death March of Bataan. Franklin
spent WWII in a Japanese prison camp. Both brothers were awarded the
Silver Star.
Gary's mother, Anita, was an
officer in the US Army Nurse's Corp. His parents met in when his father
was in the hospital recovering after the war.
Gary was born on a military base in Fairbanks, Alaska. Due
to his poor eyesight (fixed by Lasix surgery) he did not qualify for
military service. Instead he mastered the art of war in business,
specifically the software business, where tragically thick glasses were no
handicap.
One of Gary's cousins is
John Gagliardi, the most successful coach in the history of college
football. Gary and John plan to do a book on strategy in sports when they
both get the chance.
On the darker side, Gary's family relationship with
Michael
Galardi (his branch of the family change the spelling), one of the
first American's prosecuted under the Patriot Act is less certain, though
both families go back to the same small town in Colorado (Trinidad), where
Gary's grandfather had seven brothers.
Gary has no known family relationship to
Victor Gagliardi, a great photographer and gallery owner, but they are
both good friends after meeting at a book show some years ago.
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Training Customers:
- Nabisco
- American Express
- IBM
- Kraft Foods
- 3M
- Mississippi Power Company
- Mine Safety Appliance Company
- Gannet Co.
- JC Penneys
- Campbell Soup
- Direct Marketing Association
- Dish Network
- Prudential Financial
- Boy Scouts of America
- Edward Jones and Company
- Nationwide Insurance
- Abbott Labs
- Univ. of Texas
- Caterpillar
- Cummins
- Fermi Labs
- Mayo Clinic
- University of Washington
- Medtronic
- SC Johnson and Son
- George Mason Univ.
- Old Dominion University
- Reader's Digest Assoc.
- John Hancock Financial
- The World Bank
- Safeway Inc.
- Chubb and Sons
- Southern California Edison
- Lockheed Martin
- Us Census Bureau
- State Farm Insurance
- Goodyear Tire and Rubber
- Coors Brewing
- Marriot International
- Humana Inc.
- Univ. of Colorado Heath Science
- SBC Corporation
- Allied Vaugh
- USAA
- Idaho Business League
- Communication Media Managers of America
- Oxford Houses of Alaska
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