
Game-Changer
Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations
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Narrated by:
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Grover Gardner
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David McAdams
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By:
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David McAdams
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 book 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 book 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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Very good and the only content
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Real World Applications
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Wanted it to be good
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Great
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very useful book!
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Good read
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The narrator did not help things. I may enjoy this narrator for a novel of some kind, but for this type of book his tone bored me to sleep. He did not have that knack for making the material exciting and interesting.
Another small point - and this may be more related to my inaccurate expectations, but worth mentioning for others - is that this book does not really talk about how to strategize within the confines of a typical issue - such as how to navigate a prisoners dilemma type situation. There is more examples on how to introduce regulation or something that removes the elements of the prisoner's dilemma type situation. Not actually what I was looking for. I was hoping to learn about anticipating other people's moves and so on. Again, my incorrect assumptions don't make the book bad, but might be useful for anyone looking for something similar to what I was (am) looking for.
Interesting but not gripping
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The examples are lengthy and go off topic for long periods of time. I think one chapter spends thirty minutes talking about bacteria and viruses with no relation to game theory in an example that is way too complicated and has little to do with the topic.
Interesting listen yet little practical value
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Perhaps a shortcoming was that I would have liked linkage of the scenarios to math models. Without the linkage, the reading awareness was reduced to anecdotal descriptions that provide minimal guidance to a reader seeking knowledge beyond precursory mentions. Overall, the book presented an excelllent concept.
Excellent Social Applications of Game Theory!
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It may sound trite, but the central message of this book is to think outside the box
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