Beyond the Battleground by Bisio, Tom -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface to the Second Edition Introduction CHAPTER I. Ba Gua Zhang and Military Strategy

The Art of War and Ba Gua Zhang Orthodox and Unorthodox Strategies Deception in Warfare Terrain Maneuver Deployment Flexibility and Adaptability Blitz and Counter-Blitz Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency Innovation Belisarius: A Study in Strategy The Analogy of Water

CHAPTER II. Strategy and the Eight Dispositions

Strategy and Grand Strategy Strategic Planning Strategic Plans Disrupted: Friction The Chinese Way of Strategy and the Ba Gua Interactions of the Eight Trigrams The Eight Dispositions or Eight Intensions Strategic Questions Hexagrams of the Eight Palaces

Palace of Heaven Palace of Earth Palace of Thunder Palace of Mountain Palace of Wind Palace of Lake Palace of Water Palace of Fire

CHAPTER III. Strategy, the Yijing, and Ba Gua Zhang

The Implementation of Strategy Ba Gua Zhang: Exponential Potential for Change Liu Shi Si Shou Ba Gua Straight Line Eight Diagram Sixty-Four Palms

CHAPTER IV. Patterns of Change: The Order of the Hexagrams CHAPTER V. Applying Principles of Strategy and Change in Daily Life

Friction Revisited Strategic Perspective and Orientation The Yijing and Personal Life Strategies Qualities of the Superior Person: Cultivating the Strategic Mind-Intention

Perseverance and Patience Modesty Tolerance Leading and Following Education: Learning from Others Stillness, Stopping, and Waiting: Adaptation and Movement Bold Decision and Forward Movement Adaptation to Change Cohesion: Bringing People and Ideas Together Increase and Decrease

The Message of the Yijing

Harmony and Balance Wisdom Self-Cultivation

Specific Applications of Strategy to Life

1. Application of Strategic Principles to Business and Work

Visions, Plans, Directions, and Goals Operating Systems and Unified Practices Decisions and Actions Cultivating a Balanced Outlook Respect and Appreciation Communication and Meetings Information and Metrics

2. Application of Strategic Principles to Relationships

3. Application of Strategic Principles to Self-Fulfillment and One’s Life Path

Desires and Goals Excitement and Enthusiasm Nourishing Life Completion and Renewal: Hexagrams 63 and 64 Sincerity and Inner Truth: Hexagram 61 Ba Gua Zhang: Training a Disposition for Change and Transformation Let Life Decide

APPENDIX I. Conflict, the Army, and Peace

Three Hexagrams Conflict/Contention (Song) The Army (Shi) Peace (Tai)

APPENDIX II. Zhuge Liang on Strategy and Crisis Management

Zhuge Liang, the Master Strategist Leadership and Opportunity

APPENDIX III. The Thirty-Six Stratagems

1. Deceive the Heavens to Cross the Ocean 2. Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao 3. Kill with a Borrowed Knife 4. Wait Leisurely for an Exhausted Enemy 5. Loot a Burning House 6. Make Noise in the East and Attack the West 7. Create Something from Nothing 8. Advance Secretly by Way of Chencang 9. Watch a Fire from Across the River 10. Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile 11. Sacrifice the Plum Tree to Preserve the Peach Tree 12. Lead Away a Goat in Passing 13. Beat the Grass to Startle the Snake 14. Find Reincarnation in Another’s Corpse 15. Lure the Tiger Out of the Mountain 16. Leave at Large the Better to Capture 17. Cast Out a Brick to Attract Jade 18. To Catch Bandits, First Capture Their Leader 19. Remove the Firewood from Under the Cauldron 20. Muddle the Water to Seize the Fish 21. The Golden Cicada Sloughs off Its Skin 22. Shut the Door to Catch the Thief 23. Befriend Distant States While Attacking Nearby States 24. Attack Hu by a Borrowed Path 25. Replace the Beams with Rotten Timbers 26. Point at the Mulberry Tree but Curse the Locust Tree 27. Feign Madness but Keep Your Balance 28. Lure Your Enemy onto the Roof and Remove the Ladder 29. Deck the Tree with False Blossoms 30. Reverse Positions of the Host and Guest 31. The Beautiful Woman Stratagem 32. The Empty City Strategy 33. Turn the Enemy’s Agents against Him 34. The Self-Injury Strategy 35. Linked Stratagems 36. If All Else Fails, Retreat

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