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Game-Changer

Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations

by David McAdams
Grover Gardner
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A radically new, and easily learned, way to outstrategize your rivals.
"The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win." So wrote Zhuge Liang, the great Chinese military strategist. He was referring to battlefield tactics, but the same can be said about any strategic situation. Even seemingly certain defeat can be turned into victory—whether in battle, business, or life—by those with the strategic vision to recognize how to "change the game" to their own advantage.
The aim of David McAdams's Game-Changer is nothing less than to empower you with this wisdom—not just to win in every strategic situation (or "game") you face but to change those games and the ecosystems in which they reside to transform your life and our lives together for the better.
Game-Changer develops six basic ways to change games—commitment, regulation, cartelization, retaliation, trust, and relationships—enlivened by countless colorful characters and unforgettable examples from the worlds of business, medicine, finance, military history, crime, sports, and more.
The audiobook then digs into several real-world strategic challenges, such as how to keep prices low on the Internet, how to restore the public's lost trust in for-charity telemarketers, and even how to save mankind from looming and seemingly unstoppable drug-resistant disease. In each case, McAdams uses the game-theory approach developed in the audiobook to identify the strategic crux of the problem and then leverages that "game-awareness" to brainstorm ways to change the game to solve or at least mitigate the underlying problem.
So get ready for a fascinating journey. You'll emerge a deeper strategic thinker, poised to change and win all the games you play. In doing so, you can also make the world a better place. "Just one Game-Changer [is] enough to seed and transform an entire organization into a more productive, happier, and altogether better place," McAdams writes. Just imagine what we can do together.

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  • Release date

    February 1, 2014

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781469090375
      • File size: 201472 KB
      • Duration: 06:59:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 4, 2013
      All of life is a sly, byzantine battle of wits in this intriguing if somewhat contrived treatise. Duke business professor McAdams gives a sketchy but engaging rundown of topics in game theory—especially the celebrated Prisoners’ Dilemma, the conundrum that prompts perps to rat each other out when they would be better off remaining silent—and applies them to confrontations between business competitors, nuclear superpowers, college football teams, bacterial species, doctors and patients, and parents and children. From his analyses flow enlightening discussions about the role of regulations, cartels and collusion, retaliation and punishment, trust and ongoing relationships, and transparency of actions in shaping economic and social behavior. McAdams deploys these precepts to suggest solutions to real-world problems, from stamping out fraud on eBay and lowering real-estate agents’ commissions to regulating fisheries and suppressing antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis. None of this quite gels into “the game-theory approach to life” that he touts, but rather amounts to a shrewd but unsystematic probing of the complex, subtle, often perverse incentives that creep into business and social interactions. Still, McAdams’s nifty insights into the oddities of gamesmanship make for an absorbing read. 30 illus.

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