Overview
"""Freedom to chart one's strategic destiny comes only to those who are game-aware enough to rise above the game and determined enough to change the game to their own advantage"" writes David McAdams in this ground-breaking, paradigm-busting romp through the game theory of business and life. The reader will emerge as a ""game-changer"", more aware of the strategic interactions in their life and empowered with a set of methods to change those ""games"" to their advantage. The ""Game-Changer's Toolkit"" introduces six ways to change games, using the Prisoners' Dilemma as a recurring example of a solvable strategic challenge. Six ""Game-Changer Files"" present a wide variety of pressing strategic problems, from how to keep prices low on the Internet to how to win the battle with infectious disease."
Full Product Details
Author: David McAdams (Duke University)
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 21.10cm
Weight: 0.315kg
ISBN: 9780393349894
ISBN 10: 0393349896
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 01 February 2015
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Intriguing . An absorbing read.
Real-life lessons presented in a readily accessible way for the benefit of non-business readers. David McAdams's Game-Changer is a rare book: a nontechnical first introduction to game theory that also offers a fresh perspective, on how the best strategy for playing a game can often be to change the rules. I can see that I'll have lots of opportunities to recommend it. -- Alvin E. Roth, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics Ideally, business strategy books provide both general insights applicable to a broad set of competitive situations and illustrations of the theory that demonstrate the richness of the insight and the practical formulation of strategy. Game-Changer is chock-full of both insight and applications. -- R. Preston McAfee, author of Competitive Solutions: A Strategist's Toolkit Intriguing... An absorbing read.
Author Information
David McAdams is professor of business administration at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and economics professor at Duke. Holding a PhD from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and previously associate professor at MIT Sloan, he is a distinguished scholar in microeconomic theory and game theory. McAdams applies his expertise to consulting in market design and strategic business challenges, aiding various firms in auction strategies and mission-critical decisions. He has authored Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations (Norton, 2014) and instructs MBA and PhD courses on game theory and market design at Duke.
