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Success is not a zero-sum game

Lead on Purpose

In games like chess , one person wins and the other loses. .&# Give away your knowledge, connections, experience, advice, life lessons and confidence. Invest in relationships with other people and be clear on your intentions to make a difference in the lives of others. Hold others accountable for their commitments.

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Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career

Harvard Business Review

But my experience is all working with baseball data, or learning game theory because you want to be better at poker, right? Any advice for once you’re in that position, you have a seat at the table, but the other people around the table are really just not buying what you’re selling?

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

He then usually brings in the tools of game theory, in which his protagonists have to contend with other rational actors and the moves they might make. Porter then used the tools of microeconomics to craft advice for executives on how to get and hold on to that power. The Theory of Industrial Organization was just the first.

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Applying Game Theory to the Supreme Court Confirmation Fight

Harvard Business Review

. “Politics is not a game,” Winston Churchill once said. ” And yet like any business, politics is rife with strategic challenges and opportunities that game theory can help elucidate. Constitution, the president nominates justices “by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.”