Game Management

To succeed in this world, you need to change your perspective on competition, growth, and leadership. Strategy expert Ron Adner offers a new way of thinking, illustrating breakthrough ideas with compelling cases.

What explains the massive worldwide success of video games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Pokemon Go? Game companies and their popularity are poorly understood and often ignored from the standpoint of traditional business strategy. What lessons can we draw from its major successes and failures about the future of entertainment?

From the playgrounds of our youth to the professional realms of our adult lives, autistics and ADHDers must navigate a world ill-suited to our unique needs—often without support. Written by a neurodivergent therapist, "Neurodivergent Game Plan: Cheat Codes for Empowered Living" offers a compassionate exploration of the neurodivergent experience from the inside out.

In Diversity and Inclusion Matters: Tactics and Tools to Inspire Equity and Game-Changing Performance, award-winning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) expert Jason R. Thompson delivers a practical and engaging handbook for implementing a DE&I program in your organization. The CAPE technique, developed by the author, gives you a clear blueprint and the tools you'll need to make your diversity program a success. In this book, you'll learn how to achieve early and significant wins to create the necessary long-term organizational change needed for successful DE&I programs.

In a televised social experiment before millions of viewers, police sergeant Derrick Levasseur demonstrated that techniques used by undercover detectives could help people achieve their goals in everyday social situations. The result: he walked away with more than half a million dollars. In The Undercover Edge, Derrick shares his personal mind-set surrounding human behavior and motivation. Even more than that, he provides easy yet groundbreaking tools acquired while overcoming personal adversity.

In The Money Game, Mark W. Hallink reveals the hidden rules of money that govern everything from how we earn and spend to how we achieve financial independence. This book is more than a guide—it’s a blueprint for transforming your relationship with money and mastering the skills needed to build a secure, fulfilling future. Through practical advice, real-world examples, and a touch of humor, Hallink explores: The value of time, energy, and money—and how to balance them; The power of ownership, decision-making, and personal responsibility.

The Squid Game, a South Korean survival drama that has taken the world by storm, provides a poignant and unflinching depiction of the economic trappings that leave many feeling trapped and unable to achieve financial freedom. In this book, retired Marine officer Alan R. Singleton II draws parallels between the Squid Game, the economic trappings of the rat race, and his own military service, offering listeners a roadmap for achieving financial freedom and overcoming systemic barriers.

In dynamic, fiercely competitive markets you must have confidence in your business strategy, especially when the future of your company is at stake. Rather than make untested, unilateral decisions, war game strategies with your leadership team in a safe workshop environment. In Competitive Success: Building Winning Strategies with Corporate War Games, Arjan Singh, a top competitive intelligence (CI) expert consultant, shows you how to build winning strategies step-by-step.

Author Elira Fontayne explains why the showroom feels so carefully staged–the lighting, the music, the polished displays–and how every element is engineered to keep you relaxed, impressed, and just a little dazzled. She reveals the psychological triggers dealerships rely on, from “anchoring” high prices to make lesser ones seem like bargains, to the “Monthly Payment Maze” that hides the true cost of your car behind appealingly small numbers.

In Mental Games to Play, you’ll uncover the hidden mental traps that keep you emotionally stuck and constantly second-guessing yourself. You’ll learn to identify and disarm the gaslighting tactics — both external and internal - that distort your reality. Most importantly, you’ll develop a system to protect your clarity, confidence, and mental stability even when chaos hits.

Darren Finkelstein has a simple, game-changing seven-step road to accountability process that is easy to follow and will increase the probability of achieving your goals, tasks, and promises to a massive 95 percent.

In How to Negotiate Anything, Anywhere, Cohen demonstrates—in an entertaining way—how to negotiate with savvy. Using humorous lessons and insightful anecdotes—and even employing apt imitations of famous personalities and personal acquaintances—Cohen communicates different negotiating strategies and how they can be used.

Having performed over 3,000 consultations and coaching sessions with hundreds of optometry practices across the country, I’ve discovered one irrefutable truth. Your staff is your number one asset, and a leader’s ability to communicate, motivate, and “lead” a team is critical to the sustained success of the organization.

Stoicism has a lot to offer that is as relevant today as it was 2,000 years ago—its guiding purpose was to help us to live better lives. The Stoic golden rule was that "we can't control external events, but we can choose how to respond to them". This idea can have a profound effect on how we exist in the world.

What would happen if a leadership expert were willing to distill everything he’s learned in his 40-plus years of experience into a handful of life-changing rules just for you? It would change your life. IF LEADERSHIP IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES features insights learned from Steve Gilliland’s years of leadership successes and mistakes while working in a Fortune 500 company and building his own multimillion-dollar business from the ground up. The result is a revealing study of leadership delivered as only a communicator like Hall of Fame Speaker Steve Gilliland can.

Written by performance coach Tony Óg Regan, who played in multiple All-Ireland finals as part of Galway's hurling squad during his days as an athlete, The Mindset Coach will enable you to build the key behaviours, skills and focused mindset required to realise your potential and take your performance to the next level.

This audiobook is the definitive resource for learning the tricks of the trade and potential pitfalls in the hiring process as well as how to conduct an effective skin-in-the-game C-Suite job search. Skin in the Game is about middle-market private equity hiring of C-Suite executives coupled with the author's unique due diligence screening process.

Während die einen sich weniger Work und mehr Life wünschen, fordern die anderen mehr Leistungsbereitschaft. Dabei geht beides: Spaß und Erfolg. Leidenschaft und Disziplin. Selbstverwirklichung und Teamarbeit. All das und noch viel mehr können wir uns nämlich von Spitzensportlern abgucken. Ob Basketballlegende Dirk Nowitzki, Bahnrad-Champion Kristina Vogel oder die Rekordmeister vom FC Bayern München: Sie alle wenden ähnliche Methoden und Strategien an und haben ein bestimmtes Mindset.

Women on corporate boards is strictly a business issue. Independent research studies demonstrate that public companies with women on their boards are more profitable, more productive, and their workforce is better engaged. Even more compelling, shareholders large and small have the best chance for positive returns on their investments when women are on the boards.

Are you winning the battle but losing the war? Every leader has to deliver the goods - make budget, meet deadlines, and deftly manage people - to provide the inspirational fuel that keeps their business running day-in and day-out. But therein lies the danger of winning today's battle and losing the war - that is the long game of creating sustainable value in a volatile, uncertain world that is becoming ever-more complex and ambiguous.