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How to Help Managers Become More Strategic

Let's Grow Leaders

In mining, leaders must understand the strategic implications of cost curves, game theory, and real-options valuation; further, they must know and be sensitive to the stakeholders in their regulatory and societal environment, many of whom can directly influence their opportunities to create value. Strategic thinking requires context.

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Do You Play To Win Or To Keep The Game Going?

My Own Coach

On one of my many, long car journeys recently, I happened to come across a short programme on Radio 4 called '' Pop-Up Economics ''. But there was something engaging in this fifteen minute short about economics and game theory. But there was something engaging in this fifteen minute short about economics and game theory.

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Embrace the Complexity of Cyber Defense

Harvard Business Review

In fact, we have shown that when self-interested agents are included in a model of the Internet, policies that seem to be effective in the short-term actually exacerbate the cyber security problem in the long-term. Game Theory is useful for understanding strategic interactions when parties have competing interests.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

Perspective – ability to see or sense the big picture, long-term thinking. Economics and game theory also provide valuable insight into the study of trust (cf. Only a long-term commitment to maintaining a culture that fosters trust will pay off. Zest – enthusiasm for life, work, learning….

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Real Leaders Become Awakeners

The Empowered Buisness

While awakening is definitely not a common term within organizations, leaders who operate at a high level of consciousness and being are the awakeners in the business world. It conditions you to think in terms of winning and losing or a zero sum game. You will never win long term with this paradigm. The truth is ….

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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. In the early 1980s, the game theory approach to studying industries promised to be the next big wave in strategy. The Theory of Industrial Organization was just the first.

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How Blockchain Applications Will Move Beyond Finance

Harvard Business Review

Through a clever mix of game theory and cryptography, bitcoin replicates financial systems’ ability to transfer value, but without any of the labor typically involved in running and securing transactions. In this area, internet-of-things devices and sensors can drastically expand what can be built on top of a blockchain.