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    Three Moves Ahead argues that chess strategies can be applied to business. The book shows how top executives use tactics like attacks, defenses, and exploiting weaknesses to succeed in complex and changing markets. It provides real-world examples of companies like Adobe, Kodak, and Google applying concepts like controlling the center of the board, sacrificing pieces, and launching surprise attacks. The book aims to teach business leaders how to stay ahead of competitors and avoid obsolescence by drawing on over 1,000 years of lessons from the game of chess.

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    Three Moves Ahead argues that chess strategies can be applied to business. The book shows how top executives use tactics like attacks, defenses, and exploiting weaknesses to succeed in complex and changing markets. It provides real-world examples of companies like Adobe, Kodak, and Google applying concepts like controlling the center of the board, sacrificing pieces, and launching surprise attacks. The book aims to teach business leaders how to stay ahead of competitors and avoid obsolescence by drawing on over 1,000 years of lessons from the game of chess.

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    Three Moves Ahead: What Chess Can Teach You about Business (Even If You've Never Played) by Bob

    Rice (Author), Mel Foster (Reader) Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed; Library edition (April 4, 2 008) | ISBN: 1423360168 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/64Kbps | 214 mb In today s fast-moving Information Age, traditional business-planning tools are ra pidly becoming obsolete. Yet the competitive, ever-changing marketplace demands that executives move quickly or risk becoming relics. In Three Moves Ahead, business leader and chess expert Bob Rice offers an entert aining, practical response to this modern dilemma. He shows how the world s top ex ecutives use chess tactics to thrive in the face of incalculable complexities an d unexpected change. Written for nonplayers, this witty, smart guide is filled w ith real-world examples of how to win the game of business by applying chess str ategies honed from over 1,000 years of competition. With incisive prose, Rice clearly shows how to use these principles to attack co mpetitors, defend turf, and crack new markets. He demonstrates how a Strong Squar e??strategy drove Adobe s rise from niche player to industry powerhouse, how Kodak is reviving its fortunes with an Exchange Sacrifice,??and how Google is creating holes in Microsoft s position with a Minority Attack.??Most importantly, Three Mov es Ahead also shows how to Stay Ahead On the Clock??and avoid the fate of compani es like Polaroid, Gateway, and our dearly departed Ma Bell. About the AuthBob Rice was a longtime partner at Wall Street s prestigious Milbank , Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy. He left to start a software venture that was purcha sed by Viewpoint, a NASDAQ company of which he later became CEO. He is currently a managing partner of Tangent Capital, which structures financial products for hedge funds, and a member of the New York Angels venture finance group. Rice ser ved as Commissioner of the Professional Chess Association, founded the Wall Stre et Chess Club, ran numerous international chess events, and produced a successfu l Speedchess??series for ESPN.

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