Hanuman
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INVARIABLY, one can use Sun-Tzu and others (like Clausewitz, Machiavelli) to implement strategical concepts into aspects of one's life.
I would suggest (IN THEORY)>( meaning, without suggesting you to actually do it) the following:
It is important to look at the perspective that is our reality and not Sun-Tzu’s anymore. What might have seemed like 5 separate and distinct ‘persons’ can indeed be seen (by us) as ‘forms’, or ‘methods’.
Use the Local spy > I would tend to look at it and say ‘making friends in that community’; Gather information (however unimportant it might seem at first, and regardless of order) such as work times, pay, organizational structure, rumours and gossip, socio-political implications (of working there), and internal dilemmas.
Use the Internal spy > Relating to the above paragraph (either seen as Local or Internal), to ME, this case uses both Local and Internal as the same entity, form.
Use Double spies > This is can be trickier (not that the previous aren’t). Technically, ‘Using the enemy spy against it’. Realistically, afford yourself time in researching the ‘released’ persons, the laid-off, the quitters, and the unhappy of that particular group. This method guarantees whatever one would like it to guarantee, however should prove to be effectively very informational.
Use Dead spies > Obviously, this is subject to numerous interpretations. When discussing the Dead spies, there is need to consider them as Expandable or Useless, their effectiveness comes from misinformation or disinformation (however you see it). Either way, there is no 2 ways about it. Consider the use of a close ally or friend on this one. Go to the place, ask to see the Public Relations (ideal for this operation), or Human Resources (also good) people or any other group you feel is bound to give information (but thereby also receiving info). And bring up such things as: I overheard…this and that…pay is lowered after 4 yrs…there’s controversy or mismanagement in the system…discrimination…fraud…favouritism...costs-cutting…excessive outsourcing…immoral politics…Board reshuffle…AND perhaps the most important after the reshuffle: ‘…heard the company is getting rid of some people (< insert here, anything like the Board, the secretaries, the managers, auditors, contractors, etc.
Use the Living spy > Also related to the above, except a Living spy is one who comes back to you with information, because the Expandable spy is (according to Sun-Tzu) liable to be shot, executed, in which case never came back with info. I suppose ideally, this is inevitably a person who would greatly help you. Look at it this way, once you're in the company, then YOU BECOME the LIVING spy!
Lastly, I will say this: Be wary of the use of the 5 types of spies, AGAINST you. For all you know, the targeted entity is in fact targeting YOU. The important thing to remember, generally, as far as the 5 types, is that however which way you look at things, the enemy is likely to be using the same methods (perhaps not in the same sequence as you, nor even in the same length or relevance or duty). So in effect, disguise is key, coolness kept, authority asserted, rigour and acuity on your side. Prepare to be amazed.
Yours,
Hanuman
Without awareness of the whole, there can be no strategy. Without strategy, there can be only drift.
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