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Sun Tzu's Warrior's Rule ID
1.0.0 Competitive Positioning
1.1.0 Position Paths
1.1.1 Position Dynamics
1.1.2 Defending Positions
1.1.3 Advancing Against Resistance
1.2 Subobjective Positions
1.2.1 Competitive Landscapes
1.2.2 Exploiting Exploration
1.2.3 Position Complexity
1.3 Elemental Analysis
1.3.1 Competitive Comparison
1.3.2 Element Scalability
1.4 The External Environment
1.4.1 Climate Shift
1.4.2 Ground Features
1.5 Competing Agents
1.5.1 Command Leadership
1.5.2. Group Methods
1.6 Mission Values
1.6.1 Shared Mission
1.6.2 Types of Motivations
1.6.3 Shifting Priorities
1.7 Competitive Power
1.7.1 Team Unity
1.7.2 Goal Focus
1.8 Progress Cycle
1.8.1 Creation and Destruction
1.8.2 The Adaptive Loop
1.8.3 Cycle Time
1.8.4 Probabilistic Process
1.9 Competition and Production
1.9.1 Production Comparisons
1.9.2 Span of Control
2.0.0 Developing Perspective
2.1 Information Value
2.1.1 Information Limits
2.1.2 Leveraging Uncertainty
2.1.3 Strategic Deception
2.1.4 Surprise
2.2 Information Gathering
2.2.1 Personal Relationships
2.2.2 Mental Models
2.2.3 Standard Terminology
2.3 Personal Interactions
2.3.1 Action and Reaction
2.3.2 Reaction Unpredictability
2.3.3 Likely Reactions
2.3.4 Using Questions
2.3.5 Infinite Loops
2.3.6 Promises and Threats
2.4 Contact Networks
2.4.1 Ground Perspective
2.4.2 Climate Perspective
2.4.3 Command Perspective
2.4.4 Methods Perspective
2.4.5 Mission Perspective
2.5 The Big Picture
2.6 Knowledge Leverage
2.7 Information Secrecy
3.0.0 Identifying Opportunities
3.1 Strategic Economics
3.1.1 Resource Limitations
3.1.2 Strategic Profitability
3.1.3 Conflict Cost
3.1.4 Openings
3.1.5 Unpredictable Value
3.1.6 Time Limitations
3.2 Opportunity Creation
3.2.1 Environmental Dominance
3.2.2 Opportunity Invisibility
3.2.3 Complementary Opposites
3.2.4 Emptiness and Fullness
3.2.5 Dynamic Reversal
3.3 Opportunity Resources
3.4 Dis-Economies of Scale
3.4.1 Unity Breakdown
3.4.2 Opportunity Fit
3.4.3 Reaction Lag
3.5 Strength and Weakness
3.6 Leveraging Subjectivity
3.7 Defining the Ground
3.8 Strategic Matrix Analysis
4.0 Leveraging Probability
4.1 Future Potential
4.2 Choosing Non-Action
4.3 Leveraging Form
4.3.1 Tilted Forms
4.3.2 Fluid Forms
4.3.3 Soft Forms
4.3.4 Neutral Form
4.4 Strategic Distance
4.4.1 Physical Distance
4.4.2 Intellectual Distance
4.5 Opportunity Surfaces
4.5.1 Surface Area
4.5.2 Surface Barriers
4.5.3 Surface Holding Power
4.6 Six Benchmarks
4.6.1 Spread-Out Conditions
4.6.2 Constricted Conditions
4.6.3 Barricaded Conditions
4.6.4 Wide-Open Conditions
4.6.5 Fixed Conditions
4.6.6 Sensitive Conditions
4.7 Competitive Weakness
4.7.1 Command Weaknesses
4.7.2 Group Weaknesses
4.8 Climate Support
4.9 Opportunity Mapping
5.0.0 Minimizing Mistakes
5.1 Mission Priorities
5.1.1 Event Pressure
5.1.2 Unproductive Responsibility
5.2 Opportunity Exploration
5.2.1 Choosing Adaptability
5.2.2 Campaign Methods
5.2.3 Unplanned Steps
5.3 Reaction Time
5.3.1 Speed and Quickness
5.3.2 Opportunity Windows
5.3.3 Information Freshness
5.4 Minimizing Action
5.4.1 Testing Value
5.4.2 Successful Mistakes
5.5 Focused Power
5.5.1 Force Size
5.5.2 Distance Limitations
5.5.3 Evaluation Deadlines
5.6 Defensive Advances
5.6.1 Defense Priority
5.6.2 Acting Now
6.0 Situation Response
6.1 Situation Recognition
6.1.1 Conditioned Reflexes
6.1.2 Prioritizing Conditions
6.2 Campaign Evaluation
6.2.1 Campaign Flow
6.2.2 Campaign Goals
6.3 Campaign Patterns
6.3.1 Early-Stage Situations
6.3.2 Middle-Stage Situations
6.3.3 Late-Stage Situations
6.4 Nine Situations
6.4.1 Dissipating Situations
6.4.2 Easy Situations
6.4.3 Contentious Situations
6.4.4 Open Situations
6.4.5 Intersecting Situations
6.4.6 Serious Situations
6.4.7 Difficult Situations
6.4.8 Limited Situations
6.4.9 Desperate Situations
6.5 Nine Responses
6.5.1 Dissipating Response
6.5.2 Easy Response
6.5.3 Contentious Response
6.5.4 Open Response
6.5.5 Intersecting Response
6.5.6 Serious Response
6.5.7 Difficult Response
6.5.8 Limited Response
6.5.9 Desperate Response
6.6 Campaign Pause
6.7 Tailoring to Conditions
6.7.1 Form Adjustments
6.7.2 Size Adjustments
6.7.3 Strength Adjustments
6.8 Competitive Psychology
6.8.1 Adversity and Creativity
6.8.2 Strength in Adversity
6.8.3 Individual Toughness
7.0 Creating Momentum
7.1 Order from Chaos
7.1.1 Creating Surprise
7.1.2 Momentum Psychology
7.1.3 Standards and Innovation
7.2 Standards First
7.2.1 Proven Methods
7.2.2 Preparing Expectations
7.3 Strategic Innovation
7.3.1 Expected Elements
7.3.2 Elemental Rearrangement
7.3.3 Creative Innovation
7.4 Competitive Timing
7.4.1 Timing Methods
7.4.2 Momentum Timing
7.4.3 Interrupting Patterns
7.5 Momentum Limitations
7.5.1 Momentum Conversion
7.5.2 The Spread of Innovation
7.6 Productive Competition
7.6.1 Resource Discovery
7.6.2 Ground Creation
8.0 Winning Rewards
8.1 Successful Positions
8.1.1 Transforming Resources
8.1.2 Reward Boundaries
8.1.3 Reward Timing
8.2 Making Claims
8.3 Securing Rewards
8.3.1 Gauging Value
8.3.2 Distinctive Packaging
8.3.3 Rules of Engagement
8.3.4 Position Production
8.4 Individual Support
8.5 Leveraging Emotions
8.6 Winning Attention
8.7 Productivity Improvement
8.7.1 Evaluating Erosion
8.7.2 Abandoning Positions
9.0 Understanding Vulnerability
9.1 Climate Vulnerability
9.1.1 Climate Rivals
9.1.2 Threat Development
9.2 Points of Vulnerability
9.2.1 Personnel Risk
9.2.2 Immediate Resource Risk
9.2.3 Transportation/Communication Risk
9.2.4 Asset Risk
9.2.5 Organizational Risk
9.3 Crisis Leadership
9.3.1 Mutual Danger
9.3.2 Message Control
9.4 Crisis Defense
9.4.1 Division Defense
9.4.2 Panic Defense
9.4.3 Defending Openings
9.4.4 Defending Alliances
9.4.5 Defensive Balance
9.5 Crisis Exploitation
9.5.1 Adversarial Opportunities
9.5.2 Avoiding Emotion
9.6 Constant Vigilance