Chapters for The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business. The journey through the material:
1 Introduction vii
2 East Meets West 1
3 Chism 5
4. The Age of the Gunfighters 9
5. Charging Hell with a Bucket of Water 13
6. The Triggernometry of Poker 17
7. Scam of the Bounty Hunters 21
8. Education and the Snake Oil Bandits 25
9. The Tyranny of Safety 29
10. The Danger of a Halfcocked Ambush 33
11. Card Games of Gunfighters and Mystics 37
12. It’s Better to be a Ghost 41
13. When the Dandies Come Looting 45
14. The Lonely, Yet All-Knowing Stranger 49
15. Speed Doesn’t Compromise Accuracy Among the Best 53
16. Dress to Kill 57
17. The Proficiency of Six-Shooterology 61
18. Don’t Look Back at the Posse 65
19. Bootlickers are what they Eat 69
20. Everyone Isn’t Important 73
21 Winning 77
22. The Craft of Reloading 81
23. You Have to Place Your Bets 85
24. The Obscurity of Leadership 89
25. It’s All About Preparation 93
26. Difficulty is Meant to be Overcome 97
27. Less than the Blink of an Eye 101
28. Gifts Born From Freedom 105
29. The Snake Bite of Jealousy 109
30. Ice Water in the Summer 113
31. The Beauty of Recklessness 117
32. Individual Skill Beats Primitive Superstition 121
33. The Vico Cycle and the Gun 125
34. The Merits of Dueling 129
35. War 133
36. Money is Not the Root of All Evil; it Reveals It 137
37. The Nature of Workplace Power 141
38. The Parasitic Micromanager 145
39. Under Committing and Over Performing 149
40. The Optimistic Art of what Could Be 153
41. A Value of Artificial Intelligence 157
42. The Pinkertons 161
43. Capturing Opportunity Cost 165
44. Be a Legend and Nothing Less 169
45. Guns in Business 173
46. Competitive Ambition is Key to Culture 177
47. The Skill of Developed Intuition 181
48. Slapping Leather or Swing Clubs 185
49. The Corner Office 189
50. The Pocket Watch 193
51. Front Office Politics 197
52. Putting Out a Candle with Bullwhips 201
53. The 25/25 Rule 205
54. Gamblers Run the Universe 209
55. Seeing What is Invisible to Everyone Else 213
56. Mysteries of Engagement 217
57. The Value of a Story 221
58. Only the Top People 225
59. Don’t Create an Outlaw Jesse James 229
60. Managing Pressure is the Key to Success 233
About the Author 237
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