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The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
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There frankly is a hell of a lot of value in the game theory and economics literature.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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Professor Howard Raiffa’s maximum bid of others (or MBOO, pronounced “maboo”) analysis, which captures the fundamental trade-off in graphical form.
Guhan Subramanian • Dealmaking: The New Strategy of Negotiauctions (Second Edition)
WHOA.
Yes- Microsoft laid off 6,000 people BUT... they dropped a pretty brutal new policy overhaul:
-2-year rehire ban for anyone pushed out over performance
-A new “good attrition” metric (yes, they track if they’re happy you’re gone)
PLUS... you have 5 days to choose:
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Amanda Goodallx.comCompetition for the deal must be deployed in a nuanced way—seemingly small process choices can have big substantive implications.
Guhan Subramanian • Dealmaking: The New Strategy of Negotiauctions (Second Edition)
Identifying value-creating opportunities requires probing for the underlying interests of each side, rather than playing the traditional game of positional bargaining.