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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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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52% of men would prefer watching their team lift the Champions League trophy at the stadium to having a romantic date with supermodel Adriana Lima. This post does not tell you why men are like that, but it shows why comparisons like the one above are such a powerful tool.

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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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In sports there are three kinds of people: Those competing with others, those competing with themselves and those not competing at all, just doing it because they enjoy it. In companies, we find a bias towards hiring those competing with others. Here’s why the other two groups are necessary as well.

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Why 80.000 people turn up at a hockey game, the creation of a new selling proposition, sticky messages and why there is no “Dislike Button” on Facebook.

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Ever wondered what an NFL player would do during the off season? Well, the Super Bowl took place two and a half weeks ago, so this is probably the most boring time of the year for football players. Time for them to go to concerts, tape a new advertising, look for girl friends or just [...]

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Just a few hours ago, Super Bowl 44 was played at Sun Life Stadium in South Florida. The stadium was build in 1987, since then it has been called Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphins Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, Land Shark Stadium and now finally Sun Life Stadium. The recent deal with [...]

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