A Good Officer Is Not Violent
The Text
善为士者，不武；善战者，不怒；善胜敌者，不与；善用人者，为之下。是谓不争之德，是谓用人之力，是谓配天，古之极。
A good officer is not violent; a good fighter does not rage; a good victor does not engage; a good employer of people puts himself below. This is called the virtue of not contending, the strength of using others, the utmost partnership with heaven — the peak of the ancients.
Reading it
Four competencies, each defined by an absence: violence, rage, engagement, elevation. The strongest sentence is the third — the best winner never has to fight, which means winning was arranged before the contest. Partnership with heaven is efficiency, not piety: work that lets the grain of things carry the load.
四种本领，各以一种缺席定义：武、怒、交、上。最有力的第三句——最好的赢家从不必交手，说明胜负在开赛之前已排定。「配天」是效率而非虔敬：让事物纹理承担载荷的工作。
Arrange one outcome this week so thoroughly in advance that no confrontation is needed.
把本周一个结果提前布置到根本无需对抗。这才是本章教的赢。