Business Game Time

What the final seconds of Super Bowl 46 teach us about strategic options, implications, choices, game theory, coordination and behavior under pressure.

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In business there obviously aren’t any flags to throw for indicating a foul. Even worse, there aren’t a lot of rules on what foul play would be. So here’s my top five football fouls I would like to see called in business, too

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Social media channels are designed in a way that they strongly privilege recency. Two things need to happen (and will happen): A redesign of the channels in a way that values content and quality of content over recency and a change of user behavior away from high frequency towards relevance and meaning.

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Why hiring the special ones makes sense: The examples of Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots bringing in Chad Ochocinco and Albert Haynesworth and of Rex Ryan and the New York Jets signing Plaxico Burress

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So there are two possible positive effects of an idea: It is implemented or it inspires someone. If the latter is the case, we should care less about where it came from and more about spreading it.

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Just like in the NFL, business “drafts” (or call it recruiting) are built on stats and standards as well. Good grades, number of years of experience, etc.
Why these standards become irrelevant, what this means to you and how to use social media to profit from it.

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Why do teams blow the lead even though they dominated most of the games? Why do we change our tactics just because or weakened competition does? Here’s how to defeat the fear of winning.

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Here’s the idea for a new business model, the “player agent” for those that compete in the office, not on a court or field – and why it’s a win-win-win.

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User-generated content explained – and why it is a question of your internal capabilities, of your processes, of your flexibility and of your will to improve.

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One of the most unusual post-season touchdowns ever in the NFL shows us that things aren’t automatically right just because it’s the majority’s opinion.

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