MNGT 3100/5500 SPICE'ing Up Business Strategy with Chess

Contents: The Wall Street Chess Club -- Three moves ahead? -- First mover -- On the clock -- Bad bishops -- Lucky or good? -- Strong squares -- Sac the exchange! -- Classic tactics -- Decisions, decisions.

Contents Preface -- Opening gambit -- The lesson -- Strategy -- Strategy and tactics at work -- Calculation -- Talent -- Preparation -- MTQ: material, time, quality -- Exchanges and imbalances -- Phases of the game -- The attacker's advantage -- Question success -- The inner game -- Man vs. machine -- Intuition -- Crisis point -- Endgame

Contents: 1: Good and bad strategy -- Good strategy is unexpected -- Discovering power -- Bad strategy -- Why so much bad strategy? -- The kernel of good strategy -- 2: Sources of power -- Using leverage -- Proximate objectives -- Chain-link systems -- Using design -- Focus -- Growth -- Using advantage -- Using dynamics -- Inertia and entropy -- Putting it together -- 3: Thinking like a strategist -- The science of strategy -- Using your head -- Keeping your head.

Contents: The battleground -- Laying plans -- Waging war -- Attack by stratagem -- Tactical disposition -- Energy -- Weak points and strong -- Manoeuvring -- Variations in tactics -- The army on the march -- Terrain -- The nine situations -- The attack by fire -- The use of spies.