Work Like a Spy: Business Tips from a Former CIA Officer

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Reveals how techniques used by CIA officers can be employed by business professionals to recruit employees, manage crises, fend off competitors, and foster a better understanding of human nature. Abstract: Reveals how techniques used by CIA officers can be employed by business professionals to recruit employees, manage crises, fend off competitors, and foster a better understanding of human nature Content: Introduction to the clandestine world. Clandestine concepts go corporate : basic principles of intelligence collection Secret agent boot camp : developing your operational instincts Business counterintelligence -- Internal applications. Creating your team : recruitment and organizational strategies from the CIA Staying clean in a dirty world : the ethics of espionage Crisis management strategies (from an organization that truly knows the meaning of crisis) -- External applications. Making a sale the CIA way Controlling your sources : supply-chain management clandestine style Spy versus spy : dealing with competition.