Maneuvering is an Advantage if Forces are Small and Well Trained
According to Sun Tzu, it is advantageous to move an army. This assumes that you know when and where to go with the army. However, Sun Tzu says, “Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.”
In business, if your employees are seasoned and trained well, than you can move quickly against the competition. If, however, you have new employees or just have worse employees than the competition than you will lose out in maneuvering. For one reason, the employees that work faster and with better quality are more suited to a race against time. Should a company try and outmaneuver, they must at least have an advantage of better people. That is why it makes sense for large incompetent companies to sit still and smaller companies with better people should maneuver a lot.
Maneuvering should be used in devious ways. The goal of maneuvering should be to confuse and mislead opponents. Sun Tzu talks about taking a long circuitous route to entice the opponent out of the way. Then, you should race to reach the goal before the competition gets there.
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