Making Decisions in an Infinite Game Like Business
4 ways business leaders invent their own way of playing
Facing a significant downturn after the events of September 11, the CEO of Victorinox justified his decisions of not cuting job: “When you look at the world of economics, it was always like this. It will never go only up. It will never go only down… We do not think in quarters. We think in generations.”
We may encounter 2 kinds of games as individuals: finite games with rules already defined and known; or infinite games with no predetermined or final rules.
The second kind of game surrounds us in our daily life and work. And according to Simon Sinek in Infinite Games, it defines specifically the world of business.
In this environment, players persevere without ever being the definitive winners of the game, their only goal being to survive as long as possible, to string together small victories and to progress in one way or another.
How do you thrive in this kind of environment as a decision-maker?
