Top Highlights

• When you don’t have time to do your job, that’s a good indication you’re playing checkers.
• Have you asked your employees to think deeply about the business? Have you asked them to prevent problems and solve the ones that do surface?
• There are many parallels between the type of thinking needed to excel in business and in chess.
• “Yes, one of the signs the game has changed is a myriad of problems—problems that reoccur; problems that should have been anticipated and avoided, problems that catch us totally by surprise and we should have seen coming, and problems that are created by lack of focus or a failure to execute. All of these are clues.
• Develop your pieces early for maximum strategic advantage