Winning The Right Game

Author : Ron Adner
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026204546X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning the Right Game written by Ron Adner and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to succeed in an era of ecosystem-based disruption: strategies and tools for offense, defense, timing, and leadership in a changing competitive landscape. The basis of competition is changing. Are you prepared? Rivalry is shifting from well-defined industries to broader ecosystems: automobiles to mobility platforms; banking to fintech; television broadcasting to video streaming. Your competitors are coming from new directions and pursuing different goals from those of your familiar rivals. In this world, succeeding with the old rules can mean losing the new game. Winning the Right Game introduces the concepts, tools, and frameworks necessary to confront the threat of ecosystem disruption and to develop the strategies that will let your organization play ecosystem offense. To succeed in this world, you need to change your perspective on competition, growth, and leadership. In this book, strategy expert Ron Adner offers a new way of thinking, illustrating breakthrough ideas with compelling cases. How did a strategy of ecosystem defense save Wayfair and Spotify from being crushed by giants Amazon and Apple? How did Oprah Winfrey redraw industry boundaries to transition from television host to multimedia mogul? How did a shift to an alignment mindset enable Microsoft's cloud-based revival? Each was rooted in a new approach to competitors, partners, and timing that you can apply to your own organization. For today's leaders the difference between success and failure is no longer simply winning, but rather being sure that you are winning the right game.

Author : Dr. Danny Kopec
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849943389
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning the Won Game written by Dr. Danny Kopec and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every chessplayer who aspires to achieve chess mastery must learn the techniques for winning a won game. It is the perennial problem which confronts players at all levels of play. This book will enable chessplayers to better recognize their positional advantages and the ways in which these can be used in order to bring them closer to victory. It also provides many instructive examples of using this knowledge to reach a faster and more spectacular victory. Mr. Paul M. Albert, Jr. has been donating over $2000 per year to the most brilliantly played at both the Women's and Men's United States Championships for over 20 years. This book presents, describes and illustrates the most significant examples, with emphasis on what can be learned from them in terms of winning a won game.

Author : Grahame R. Dowling
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262335093
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning the Reputation Game written by Grahame R. Dowling and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Core strategies for creating a corporate reputation that will provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace: a back-to-basics approach. What does a company have to do to be admired and respected? Why does Apple have a better reputation than, say, Samsung? In Winning the Reputation Game, Grahame Dowling explains. Companies' reputations do not derive from consultant-recommended campaigns to showcase efforts at corporate transparency, environmental sustainability, or social responsibility. Companies are admired and respected because they are “simply better” than their competitors. Companies that focus on providing outstanding goods and services are rewarded with a strong reputation that helps them gain competitive advantage. Dowling, who has studied corporate reputation–building for thirty years, describes two core strategies for creating a corporate reputation that will provide a competitive advantage: to be known for being Best at Something or for being Best for Somebody. Apple, for example, is best at personal technology products that enhance people's lifestyles. IKEA is best for people who want well-designed furniture at affordable prices. Dowling covers such topics as the commercial value of a strong reputations—including good employees, repeat customers, and strong share price; how corporate reputations are formed; the power of “being simply better”; the effectiveness of corporate storytelling (for good or ill; Kenneth Lay of Enron was a master storyteller); and keeping out of trouble. Drawing on many real-world examples, Dowling shows how companies that are perceived to be better than their competitors build strong reputations that reflect past success and promise more of the same. Companies that artificially engineer a reputation with irrelevant activities but have stopped providing the best products and services available often wind up with mediocre—or worse—reputations.

Author : Tom Whipple
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062443720
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Win Games and Beat People written by Tom Whipple and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destroy the competition on game night with this seriously funny guide packed with handy strategy, tricks, and tips from the experts Games are way more fun to play when you win—especially when you crush your friends and family! In How to Win Games and Beat People, Times science editor Tom Whipple explores inside tips, strategy, and advice from a ridiculously overqualified array of experts that will help you dominate the competition when playing a wide range of classic games—from Hangman to Risk to Trivial Pursuit and more. A mathematician explains how to approach Connect 4; a racecar driver guides you through the corners in slot car racing; a mime shares trade secrets for performing the best Charades; a Scrabble champion reveals his secret strategies; and a game theorist teaches you to become a real estate magnate, recommending the Monopoly properties to acquire that will bankrupt and embarrass your opponents (sorry, Mom and Dad). Funny, smart, and endlessly useful, this is a must-read for anyone who takes games too seriously, and the bible for sore losers everywhere.

Author : Charles D. Ellis
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071387675
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning the Loser's Game written by Charles D. Ellis and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winning the Loser's Game is considered by many to be a classic analysis of investing."­­Financial Planning The premise of the bestselling Winning the Loser's Game­­that individual investors can achieve far greater success working with financial markets than against them­­has grown increasingly popular in today's hard-to-predict markets. The latest edition of this concise yet comprehensive classic offers updated strategies to leverage the power of time and compounding, protect against down cycles, and more.

Author : Ron Adner
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262546000
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning the Right Game written by Ron Adner and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to succeed in an era of ecosystem-based disruption: strategies and tools for offense, defense, timing, and leadership in a changing competitive landscape. The basis of competition is changing. Are you prepared? Rivalry is shifting from well-defined industries to broader ecosystems: automobiles to mobility platforms; banking to fintech; television broadcasting to video streaming. Your competitors are coming from new directions and pursuing different goals from those of your familiar rivals. In this world, succeeding with the old rules can mean losing the new game. Winning the Right Game introduces the concepts, tools, and frameworks necessary to confront the threat of ecosystem disruption and to develop the strategies that will let your organization play ecosystem offense. To succeed in this world, you need to change your perspective on competition, growth, and leadership. In this book, strategy expert Ron Adner offers a new way of thinking, illustrating breakthrough ideas with compelling cases. How did a strategy of ecosystem defense save Wayfair and Spotify from being crushed by giants Amazon and Apple? How did Oprah Winfrey redraw industry boundaries to transition from television host to multimedia mogul? How did a shift to an alignment mindset enable Microsoft's cloud-based revival? Each was rooted in a new approach to competitors, partners, and timing that you can apply to your own organization. For today's leaders the difference between success and failure is no longer simply winning, but rather being sure that you are winning the right game.

Author : Nick Grudzien
Publisher : Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781880685389
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning in Tough Hold 'em Games written by Nick Grudzien and published by Two Plus Two Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent boom of Texas hold 'em has forever changed the way the game is played. Many more people know how to play this game well. Even the "loose" players who come to gamble have become far more aggressive, making them more difficult to play against. So a basic tight and patient strategy will no longer guarantee that you can make a significant amount of money in games at the higher stakes. This is especially true short-handed, which have become increasingly popular in the online poker rooms. This text is the first to tackle the complex issues presented when playing short-handed and high-stakes limit hold 'em. But even if you happen to only play in softer games, many of the key concepts presented will still help you against the other good players in your game. Winning in Tough Hold 'em Games includes an examination of pre-flop play, covering issues at a depth of sophistication which have never appeared in print before including discussions of blind stealing, re-stealing, isolating a loose player, big blind and small blind defense, and blind versus blind play. Also covered are thorough sections on playing heads-up post flop and semi-bluffing. In addition, over 50 hands, taken from high stakes online games which were played by "Stoxtrader," are presented along with appropriate discussion of the strategy involved. Book jacket.

Author : Adam Brandenburger
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633691292
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Right Game written by Adam Brandenburger and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business is like war: The best combatant wins while the worst loses, right? Not necessarily. Companies can succeed spectacularly without destroying others. And they can lose miserably after competing well. Exceptional businesses win by actively shaping the game they're playing, not playing the game they find. The Right Game shows you how to do this—by altering who's competing, what value each player brings to the table, and which rules and tactics players use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Author : Ron Adner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101561327
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wide Lens written by Ron Adner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can great companies do everything right - identify real customer needs, deliver excellent innovations, beat their competitors to market - and still fail? The sad truth is that many companies fail because they focus too intensely on their own innovations, and then neglect the innovation ecosystems on which their success depends. In our increasingly interdependent world, winning requires more than just delivering on your own promises. It means ensuring that a host of partners -some visible, some hidden- deliver on their promises, too. In The Wide Lens, innovation expert Ron Adner draws on over a decade of research and field testing to take you on far ranging journeys from Kenya to California, from transport to telecommunications, to reveal the hidden structure of success in a world of interdependence. A riveting study that offers a new perspective on triumphs like Amazon's e-book strategy and Apple's path to market dominance; monumental failures like Michelin with run-flat tires and Pfizer with inhalable insulin; and still unresolved issues like electric cars and electronic health records, The Wide Lens offers a powerful new set of frameworks and tools that will multiply your odds of innovation success. The Wide Lens will change the way you see, the way you think - and the way you win.

Author : Kara Lane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733937900
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thinking Game written by Kara Lane and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How you think determines your success and satisfaction in life. Your thinking affects how you feel, what you say, and what you do. Your thoughts drive your actions, and your actions drive your outcomes. Becoming a more effective thinker will help you make better decisions, solve challenging problems, and achieve your most important goals.One of the biggest obstacles to effective thinking is that most of what drives our thoughts, emotions, and behavior is unconscious and automatic. Our unconscious minds include hidden beliefs, biases, and feelings from the past that continue to influence our thoughts, behavior, and experiences today. Fortunately, you can learn to identify any faulty beliefs and feelings that are holding you back and train your unconscious mind to work for you instead of against you. In the process, you'll gain a better understanding of yourself, other people, and your current situation.Your freedom and power come from your conscious mind, which includes everything you're aware of: your current thoughts, feelings, and perceptions and those you can retrieve from memory. Conscious thinking is intentional and rational. It allows you to choose your own goals rather than letting other people or your past environment choose them for you. Conscious thinking puts you in control of your own life. You can improve your conscious thinking by using the rules, tools, and strategies provided in The Thinking Game. You'll learn to develop a thinking mindset by cultivating the six personality traits of great thinkers. You'll discover how to strengthen four essential thinking skills, allowing you to get more done, in less time, with better results. You'll be provided with twelve effective thinking techniques to prompt better critical and creative thinking. And you'll receive a list of questions to improve your results in every major area of your life.In addition to helping you gain greater control over your thoughts, feelings, and behavior, The Thinking Game will help you achieve your goals by following a simple 4-step process to set the right goal, create the right plan, take the right action, and analyze and improve your results.