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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. In games like chess , one person wins and the other loses. Life in the business world at times feels like a zero-sum game. As you move up the ladder of success the number of positions decreases and the pressure to succeed increases.

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Why Your Company Should Partner with Rivals

Harvard Business Review

First, the company would increase the amount of free source material for its bio-fuel facility, which would lead to lower per-unit cost of bio-fuel energy, expediting a positive return on its investment. Therefore it's time to extend the concept of game theory to upstream activities too.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Nash Equilibrium, Pareto Principle).

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Real Leaders Become Awakeners

The Empowered Buisness

That gnawing feeling of something missing is a positive thing. A leader wearing the hat of mentor focuses on influencing a person’s beliefs and values in a positive way – such as, believing in him/herself. the best result comes when everyone in a group (team, market, etc.) How could something be missing? Guess what?

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

Harvard Business Review

His book, The Signal and the Noise , explains the power of statistical modeling to improve our predictions about everything from the weather to sports to the stock market. But my experience is all working with baseball data, or learning game theory because you want to be better at poker, right?

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