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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.

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Can Hiding The Truth Boost Cooperation?

The Horizons Tracker

Tipping point. During the simulations, the researchers assumed that each individual would join the community as a blank slate, with an inherent belief that the other members would cooperate. This led to them typically cooperating too.

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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.

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Embrace the Complexity of Cyber Defense

Harvard Business Review

The study of these networks, called network science , has successfully identified tipping points in disease epidemics and cascading failures in power grids. Game Theory is useful for understanding strategic interactions when parties have competing interests. Complex systems rarely eliminate malicious threats permanently.

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Understanding the Game Being Played in Washington

Harvard Business Review

Peyton Young’s “ The Evolution of Conventions ,” one of several works of game theory I plowed my way through this week in an attempt to find a way to think about the government shutdown and looming debt ceiling fight that didn’t make me want to bang my head against a wall. That quote is from economist H. Trial and error.