
Every Move Must Have a Purpose
Strategies from Chess for Business and Life
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Narrated by:
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Bruce Pandolfini
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By:
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Bruce Pandolfini
Fluid and elegant, yet rigorous and rule-bound, chess is a game that seduces, confounds, and hooks. Now, world-renowned chess master and Fortune 500 business consultant Bruce Pandolfini shows readers how chess principles can be simply and logically applied to any business or life situation. No specific chess knowledge is needed, but after reading Every Move Must Have a Purpose, you will share with the most astute chess players the secret to thinking on your feet.
From the celebrated "chairman of the board" comes the secrets of strategy that everyone will find useful:
- Be aggressive, but don't take any unnecessary chances.
- Play the board, not the player.
- Answer all threats with a counter-threat.
- When exchanging, always get at least as much as you give up.
Crisply and engagingly written, with entertaining examples and chess anecdotes, Every Move Must Have a Purpose will improve your strategic thinking so you'll never again debate your next move.
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Good for me as a beginner
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Simple yet deep
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Good read.
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At any rate, it cannot be equitably said that this work will thoroughly teach chess. In order to understand the principles here, the reader or listener must understand the "basics" of chess. Furthermore, these principles are strategic but strategy can be wrecked by the proper use of tactics --chess or otherwise, and he doesn't cover the tactics of chess at all. The value of this work is its philosophical nature and not practical advice or examples.
Admittedly More Philosophical Than Practical
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Interesting Stories, but Little Practical Impact
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Wonderful!
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Good overall
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quite interesting and insightful
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Mostly chess stories
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Seems the author really wanted to write a book about chess history and strategy, and stuck in random thoughts about business. It would be helpful for those whose main desire is to improve their chess game, or perhaps interesting to those who are already fairly accomplished chess players.
Each chapter presents a principle of chess - "Play with a plan," "Learn from your mistakes" - followed by lengthy examples from chess, then a tiny bit basically saying that this also applies to business. For example, in the chapter entitled, "Don't Sacrifice Without Good Reason," he gives the brief business example of flooding the market with free product in order to try to gain customers who will pay for it in the future. Then he says that in chess and business it's really better to sacrifice your opponent's pieces than your own. If there is a way to do that in the business world, he has left me in the dark about what he means.
A more fundamental drawback is that he seems to take a wholly adversarial win/lose approach to business. In chess, there's always an opponent, a winner and a loser. The approach of Stephen Covey and others - to seek win/win solutions - makes more sense to me.
Another flaw in his approach is that chess has only two people/entities involved, whereas in business you have at least three - yourself as a product/service supplier, your prospects or clients, and your competitors. At least in my profession, I find I do far better to work on my relationship and communication with potential clients, than I would do by attacking my competitors in some way. I enjoy good business relationships based on trust.
Adversarial, two-dimensional approach to business
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