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Preface | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
What You Need to Know to Beat Systems | p. 6 |
Why Systems Need to Be Beaten: Necessity mothers inversion | p. 9 |
Understanding Systems: Knowledge without understanding is a misguided missile | p. 15 |
The Nature of Creativity: Those in boxes can't think out of them | p. 25 |
System Beaters: Their Stories | p. 40 |
Denying Assumptions: Say it isn't so | p. 45 |
Turnabout Is Fair Play: Do unto the system as it would do unto you | p. 83 |
Divide and Conquer: When the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing | p. 93 |
Threaten the System: Squeeze, but sometimes please | p. 103 |
Sidestep Constraints: Dazzle them with your footwork | p. 115 |
When All Else Fails, Revolt: You have nothing to lose but your frustration | p. 125 |
System Beating in a Nutshell and Making Systems Unbeatable | p. 136 |
Rules of Thumb for System Beaters: The gist of it | p. 139 |
Making Systems Unbeatable: An ounce of prevention... | p. 147 |
Stories by System Category | p. 157 |
Sources | p. 161 |
Index | p. 163 |
Acknowledgments | p. 169 |
An Invitation to System Beaters | p. 171 |
About the Authors | p. 173 |
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