Comments on: Taking the Long View http://episteme.ca/2006/09/21/taking-the-long-view/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:41:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Mike Murray http://episteme.ca/2006/09/21/taking-the-long-view/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Mike Murray Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:06:31 +0000 http://episteme.ca/wp/?p=20#comment-25 I wouldn't dream of it - knew you'd be sucked in. ;) I'd argue that the idea of the infinite game has always driven the companies with the best leadership - it's the companies who get sucked into the finite, zero-sum type of game that end up like Enron and Worldcom. What's most interesting is how seductive the finite game can be - it's simple and easy to aim for a definite "ending" or "exit strategy", and that enables you to make a whole class of decisions that you would never make in an infinite game. Pets.com superbowl commercials, anyone? I wouldn’t dream of it – knew you’d be sucked in. ;)

I’d argue that the idea of the infinite game has always driven the companies with the best leadership – it’s the companies who get sucked into the finite, zero-sum type of game that end up like Enron and Worldcom.

What’s most interesting is how seductive the finite game can be – it’s simple and easy to aim for a definite “ending” or “exit strategy”, and that enables you to make a whole class of decisions that you would never make in an infinite game.

Pets.com superbowl commercials, anyone?

]]> By: TK http://episteme.ca/2006/09/21/taking-the-long-view/comment-page-1/#comment-28 TK Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:37:40 +0000 http://episteme.ca/wp/?p=20#comment-28 In terms of Carse's Finite and Infinite games, leadership in companies succeed because they play the infinite game by constructing and deconstructing the business units and internals of their own structure. This is the genius of companies like GE who have done just that. We need to remember, it is the species that evolves and survives, not the individual organism. Don't mention Carse's F.I.G and expect me to not post something. :-) --tk In terms of Carse’s Finite and Infinite games, leadership in companies succeed because they play the infinite game by constructing and deconstructing the business units and internals of their own structure. This is the genius of companies like GE who have done just that.

We need to remember, it is the species that evolves and survives, not the individual organism.

Don’t mention Carse’s F.I.G and expect me to not post something. :-)

–tk

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