Entrega a tus rivales cuerda suficiente para que se ahorquen ellos mismos: la Estrategia de superar a los demás

GIVE YOUR RIVALS ENOUGH ROPE
TO HANG THEMSELVES
THE ONE-UPMANSHIP STRATEGY

Life's greatest dangers often come not from external
enemies but from our supposed colleagues and
friends, who pretend to work for the common cause
while scheming to sabotage us and steal our ideas
for their gain. Although, in the court in which you
serve, you must maintain the appearance of
consideration and civility, you also must learn to
defeat these people. Work to instill doubts and
insecurities in such rivals, getting them to think too
much and act defensively. Bait them with subtle
challenges that get under their skin, triggering an
overreaction, an embarrassing mistake. The victory
you are after is to isolate them. Make them hang
themselves through their own self-destructive
tendencies, leaving you blameless and clean.
Robert Greene


Life is war against the malice of men...
BALTASAR GRACIAN, 1601-58

Never interfere with an enemy that is in the
process of committing suicide...
--Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

There are other ways to fray nerves. During the
Gulf War, President Bush kept pronouncing the
name of the Iraqi leader as "SAD-am," which
loosely means "shoeshine boy." On Capitol
Hill, the ritual mispronunciation of a member's
name is a time-tested way to rattle opponents or
haze newcomers. Lyndon Johnson was a
master of the practice. When Johnson was
Senate majority leader, writes J. McIver
Weatherford, he applied it with junior members
who voted the wrong way: "While slapping the
young chap on the back and telling him he
understood, Johnson would break his name into
shreds as a metaphorical statement of what
would happen if the disloyalty persisted.
THE ART OF POLITICAL WARFARE, JOHN
PITNEY, JR., 2000