Thinking Strategically
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Thinking Strategically: Competitive Edge in Business, Politics and Everyday Life for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Authors
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
Product Description
Review
Dixit and Nalebuff set out sure-fire rules for thinking about strategy. --David Henderson
Product Description
A major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneuvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It outlines the basic good strategy making and then shows how you can apply them in any area of your life.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
We begin with ten tales of strategy from different aspects of life and offer preliminary thoughts on how best to play. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
We begin with ten tales of strategy from different aspects of life and offer preliminary thoughts on how best to play. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book is an easy read with lots of examples and case studies ranging from simplified business problems to the tactics of an american football coach. It's a good introduction into game-theory with only very limited mathematics (no formula can be found in the book). A definite recomendation.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"Strategic thinking is the art of outdoing an adversary, knowing that the adversary is trying to do the same to you." So begins Dixit and Nalebuff's guide to gaining the competitive edge. They intend this book for "businessmen," politicians, football coaches and parents--anyone who contends with an adversary. Their goal is to teach readers about game theory, the "emerging science of strategy," without jargon or mathematical formulas.
They begin with "ten tales of strategy" from a variety of settings. Using examples from sports, politics, history--and even a children's fairy tale--the authors illustrate the pervasive need for strategic thinking. Successive chapters present aspects of strategic thinking and explore their variations. Initial chapters address anticipating a rival's response, seeing through a rival's strategy, and adopting the best strategy in the cooperate-or-betray game of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
The authors then explore the art of making strategic moves, actions "...designed to alter the beliefs and actions of others in a direction favorable to yourself." We learn about unconditional moves as well as threats, promises, warnings and assurances. Succeeding chapters explain the value of making credible commitments, of sometimes being unpredictable, and of "playing chicken" with brinksmanship. We learn the relative strengths of cooperative and competitive strategies and how to choose between them. The final three strategy chapters explore the possible moves when adversaries are voting to make decisions and how to make the best use of bargaining positions and incentives.
There are numerous brief examples throughout the book. Each strategy chapter closes with a more elaborate case study to be analyzed using the chapter's principles. The final chapter is a collection of 23 fresh case studies that serve as a "comprehensive final exam" by drawing on strategies from all chapters. The authors achieve their goal of a readable, nontechnical introduction. They even lead us into some minimally-painful use of decision trees and contingency tables.
I recommend the book as a serious introduction to strategic thinking. Well, perhaps the occasional cartoon it includes disqualifies it as "serious." But its lessons prepare readers to act strategically in serious, real-life situations. Reading it is a good move.
They begin with "ten tales of strategy" from a variety of settings. Using examples from sports, politics, history--and even a children's fairy tale--the authors illustrate the pervasive need for strategic thinking. Successive chapters present aspects of strategic thinking and explore their variations. Initial chapters address anticipating a rival's response, seeing through a rival's strategy, and adopting the best strategy in the cooperate-or-betray game of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
The authors then explore the art of making strategic moves, actions "...designed to alter the beliefs and actions of others in a direction favorable to yourself." We learn about unconditional moves as well as threats, promises, warnings and assurances. Succeeding chapters explain the value of making credible commitments, of sometimes being unpredictable, and of "playing chicken" with brinksmanship. We learn the relative strengths of cooperative and competitive strategies and how to choose between them. The final three strategy chapters explore the possible moves when adversaries are voting to make decisions and how to make the best use of bargaining positions and incentives.
There are numerous brief examples throughout the book. Each strategy chapter closes with a more elaborate case study to be analyzed using the chapter's principles. The final chapter is a collection of 23 fresh case studies that serve as a "comprehensive final exam" by drawing on strategies from all chapters. The authors achieve their goal of a readable, nontechnical introduction. They even lead us into some minimally-painful use of decision trees and contingency tables.
I recommend the book as a serious introduction to strategic thinking. Well, perhaps the occasional cartoon it includes disqualifies it as "serious." But its lessons prepare readers to act strategically in serious, real-life situations. Reading it is a good move.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is on strategic thinking. This is what you normally understand as game theory today. Game theory have become a mayor scientific discipline. After two Nobel prices it is a normal standard in economics. Dixit and Nalebuff describe the basics in game theory on a low level. They do not need to use mathematical equations to explain the context. The examples in this book are taken from politics, business and sports. There common model is the prison dilemma case. From this starting point they explain the various forms of co-operative behaviour to solve the games in life. The final result is to find a co-operative outcome with strategic moves. There are a lot of case studies in this book. It makes it easier to follow there ideas.
They show how deterrence was a good instrument in the cold war. They explain how a thread in business is taken on and when the thread is credible it is a good strategy to deter a potential competitor.
It is a book for everyone who is interested in strategic thinking. For the manager it is a good book for bargaining situations.
I read the book with pleasure because it makes business very simple and it is a joy to read.
They show how deterrence was a good instrument in the cold war. They explain how a thread in business is taken on and when the thread is credible it is a good strategy to deter a potential competitor.
It is a book for everyone who is interested in strategic thinking. For the manager it is a good book for bargaining situations.
I read the book with pleasure because it makes business very simple and it is a joy to read.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
worth reading
This book should become a cornerstone in business schools teaching Strategic Planning at Undergraduate level or in MBA classes.
Published 19 months ago by anund
A concise and readable popularisation of Game Theory.
The authors write with clarity in a field which they have both
academic and practical experience. Read more
academic and practical experience. Read more
Published on 14 Sep 1995
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
