"Why do some countries succeed while others struggle? Why are some firms profitable while rivals fail? Why do some marriages thrive and others end in divorce? These questions seem unrelated, but societies, companies, and marriages have one important thing in common: they involve more than one...

1. Everybody wants to rule the world -- 2. Where we're coming from -- 3. Where we've been -- 4. Why we're headed there : it's all in the game -- 5. Instructional voyeurism -- 6. The unavoidable heirarchy -- 7. On organizational narratives : the stories we know, the secrets we keep -- 8....