The Alynski Rules

In the 70s, Saul Alynski, hippy provocator, previous student in archeology, previous Al Capone gangster, founder of one of the main Union in the United-States, published a manual stating ten tactical rules to survive in society:

1. Power is not what you have but what you're surrounding thinks you have.
2. Get out of the experience spectrum of your opponent. Invent new battle fields to which he does not yet know how to behave on.
3. Fight your enemy with his own weapons. Use elements of his own book of conduct to fight him.
4. Humor is one of the strongest weapon in a verbal confrontation. If you can get to ridicule or better, get your opponent to ridicule himself, it gets very difficult for the opponent to come back.
5. A tactic shall never become routine. More so when it works.Repeat it to get to understand its full extent and then, change tactic. Adopt the total opposite tactic if may be.
6. Always keep your adversary on the defensive. He should never be able to have a moment to breathe, to recoup and reorganize. One should use all external means available to maintain the pressure.
7. Never bluff if you cannot deliver. If you do, you risk loosing all credibility.
8. Handicaps can become best assets. Reclaim all of your specificities as a force and not a weakness.
9. If you gain victory. You have to make sure that you can actually "occupy the land". You must have a program ready to replace the program you overtook.
10. Focus on the target and no mather what, stay focus on it through out the entire engagement. Your target must be the most narrow, precise and yet significant objective possible.