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A Spy's Guide to Strategy
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Categories: Business & Careers, Management & Leadership
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Publisher's Summary
When you're a spy, you see a lot of strategies. It's your job to see grand strategies. Regional strategies. National strategies. Most of all, individual strategies. It's your job to see them and to understand them, because that's how you know when threats exist. To identify threats, you're infiltrating an enemy's organization. You're figuring out who is making decisions. And who isn't. You're collecting intelligence on what they know. And what they don't know. You're figuring out their plans. Whether they mean you harm or don't. Whether they're a threat. Whether they're going to attack. Hopefully, before it's done. You're uncovering the enemy's strategy. That's the job of a spy. But it's not only enemies' strategies you see. You're also talking to allies who have strategies of their own. You're understanding what they want. What they don't. Hopefully, they'll tell you what their strategy is. But sometimes, they don't. Then, there's your side's strategy. Your side's strategy is why you're a spy. It's why they send you to foreign countries and back alleys and diplomatic receptions. You're there to serve your side's strategy. When you're a spy, you have a front row seat to a lot of strategies. Which means you see some strategies succeed. And you see many more strategies fail. Sometimes, a strategy fails because of logistics. Or because the enemy strikes first. Or because the strategy was overtaken by events. Or because it was made obsolete by inaction. But most strategies fail earlier. Most strategies fail before a conflict starts. Most strategies fail before an alliance is formed. Before even war is declared. Most strategies fail because they're made the wrong way.
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- Daniel
- 02-07-2018
Not bad
I found myself wondering how a topic was reached, far too often. Subjects changed frequently with nothing tying them together other than the audio previously heard in another part of the chapter. Putting the pieces together was easy, for the most part, but I expect this may be due to it being an audio book rather than being able to easily distinguish context changes through headings or changes in paragraphs. Overall it was pretty good.
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- steve toke
- 31-01-2019
What is the point?
Timeless informative and to the point.Easy to see why not to be trusting towards people that never worked in the filed.
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- Jugg
- 27-04-2018
Look forward, Reason backward...
For a very short book, there is far too much repeat speak and redundancy - Look forward, Reason backward..., my boss, my boss's boss, my boss's boss's boss...et al.
Look forward, Reason backward is the hallmark statement of the book and is repeated over and over. Yet it is exactly what every competent planner does whether planning a wedding or an invasion.
The BEST piece of advice from the book is this (paraphrasing) - "Never engage in any game where the best outcome you can achieve is zero."
Braddock should've cut the liar loose after the second meeting and saved himself the pain.
I paid very little for this book. It was nearly worth the price.
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- bb
- 20-09-2018
Too repetitive and hardly bareable
Very hard on the ears, easy words, too predictable. Every kind of boring thing seems to be in this speaker's voice.
56 people found this helpful
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- Troy
- 02-08-2018
Good. Not Bad. Not Great.
I found this book interesting and the naration was good. The best way I can describe it is this. Have you ever written a really good paper? One you know hits all the marks and is gonna get you a high grade? Have you then looked and realized you missed the page/word count requirement? So you then have to go back and add a bunch of fluff that gets you there but kind of now makes your great paper repetitive. that is how you will feel about hearing the words "people, places, and things" or "zero. sum. game.". There are times it makes valid and perfect sense, and then times you feel like it was a "I can throw that phrase in here for word count" moment. Still overall I enjoyed it.
46 people found this helpful
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- A normal person
- 20-11-2018
Not really a guide
I enjoyed the book overall. This really isn’t a guide on strategy development and the useful information is really obvious. The stories are interesting and it’s an overall fun book to read anyway.
26 people found this helpful
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- Matt Bailey
- 25-03-2019
Excellent Companion to Kindle Book
Kevin Pierce is my favorite Audible narrator. This short book works well written or spoken. I like this as much as a Spy's Guide to Thinking. Definitely get the Kindle book because a lot of the information is visual. I loved this book when it came out on the Kindle and the Audible version does not disappoint. The scripting is excellent either spoken or read. Very in depth and entertaining which makes it easy to master the material. Whispersync makes having the Audible and Kindle versions much better than having either alone.
10 people found this helpful
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- Winterwrath
- 22-11-2017
Really great read, highly recommended !
Loved the narrative, anecdotes, deduction and the breakdown of the process of tradecraft strategy. Gives the reader a informative insight of modern day espionage.
5 people found this helpful
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- Matthew M
- 06-04-2018
Interesting and easy/fun listen
Interesting and easy/fun listen Strategy focused, fairly simple. Draws on 911 and espionage examples.
4 people found this helpful
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- Marvin Young
- 18-01-2019
it was ok
good simple models for thinking, strategizing, and living in general. recommend to anyone really anyone
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- Jeffrey Guy
- 28-09-2017
Excellent approach to strategy and game theory.
Both of his books are interesting and to the point. I’ve read entire shelves of books on strategy and game theory. This brief book is the most common sense and applicable approach. I highly recommend this and his other book on thinking.
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- Kristoffer Edwards
- 11-10-2019
A Spy's Guide is more than meets the eye.
This book is an essential to keep. Kevin Pierce gives you a tool that doesn't just apply to spying or the intelligence game but it highlights a learnable skill for the average businessman/woman or even a college student. Development of a Endgame. I will definitely be reading more. I am completely HOOKED!
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-08-2020
Gripping stuff!
Held my attention to the end. Great narrator. Will definitely purchase more from this author.
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