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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

We think that the next generation strategy apps will finally be able to prove a real business case. Just consider some the advantages games have over more traditional approaches in strategy education. Exogenous shocks (new technologies, economic-political events) were incorporated as well to train players to stay agile and flexible.

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GC33: Playing a Better Game of Business | with Simcha Gluck of FreshBiz

Engaging Leader

For one growing company, they not only have created a game that tens of thousands of people have played, they are changing the overall “game” of business itself — to transform corporate culture, education, and entrepreneurship.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Business simulations or unstructured large group dialogues are examples of this. Training people with tools and models is very different from simply holding a space for leaders to be. In its place, switch to constructing self-directed experiences for participants that replicate the precise contexts they need to lead in.