We cannot navigate wisely in the world today without acknowledging The Shadow Game and the Shadow Players. The first precept of Sun Tzu’s Art of War is:
>Know yourself
>Know your adversary
>and you will not be defeated in 100 battles.
I came upon the discovery of The Shadow Game through complex business and government negotiations in Japan, China, and Korea with some of the world’s resourceful and formidable players. The central intention of The Shadow Game is to attack the Mind and undermine the integrity—or adaptive capacity, i.e. resilience, of the adversary. Once I realized that this is its Mission, I reverse engineered my Resilient Negotiation system and asked myself for each life-enhancing “move” or principle what is the obverse? And in a flash The Shadow Game emerged. I was able to Go Behind the Mask (See below).
References:
- Decoding The Shadow Game
- Collective Blindness, Risk, Resilience, Emergence
- Going Behind the Mask (Bill, please attach)