Spying methods that work for Mossad should work for you too.
Exercise: Open Spying Methods
Ramo points to this contrast (Greenspan's "flaw") as a signal of what's wrong in the Western approach to problem-solving. Given any problem, we're schooled to attack it head-on, ignoring the context and often the possible repercussions of our actions. Instead, Ramo argues, we should take several steps backward, view every problem as the manifestation of numerous intersecting factors, and look for indirect ways to prod the system to make an end run around the problem.
For instance, Ramo cites the work of General Aharon Farkash, Israel's most successful leader of military intelligence, who found that head-on attacks against insurgents invariably led to failure and that asking the usual questions would lead only to confusion. Rather than focus exclusively on the movement of arms through Iranian border crossings, for example, Farkash asked his agents to study the most popular show on Iranian TV to understand what was new in their adversaries' thinking. "Focus on things that move and change," Farkash insisted. Ramo sees that injunction as essential for a successful response to the challenges of the future.
"The Age of the Unthinkable"
Source: https://malwarwickonbooks.com/resiliency/
So, shortly after coming into office, Farkash started directing his spies to look at details that his predecessors had thought irrelevant or regarded as second-order concerns: Were people out shopping in Beirut (a sign of the Lebanese economy's health)? What was intellectual life like on the streets of Damascus? How were Iraqi refugees inside Syria settling in? What interested Farkash about such inquiries is that they were new and changing, very different from the "where are the Syrian tanks" questions he had been told he should ask.
Sometimes he would deliberately put some stress on his enemies just to see what he could learn, and not just in Syria. A friend told me about Farkash's idea for blowing up meaningless crates going to Iran, for instance, or shuffling around safe houses, simply to see what would happen. Actions like this might appear to be irrelevant, but they allowed him to watch his enemies react.
"The Age of the Unthinkable"
Source:https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=UXs4AQAAQBAI
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