Winning Long-Term Games
Reproducible success strategies to achieve your long-term goals
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About the book
The key to winning long-term games is to stop playing them as a succession of separate short-term games.
Yet, most people take the opposite approach.
- The manager who sees each interaction with her team as a separate game. Every time she talks to her subordinates, it's to get things done rather than develop their skills. As a result, she fails to build the long-term assets (a competent team) she needs in order to win her long-term game (a successful career).
- The spouse who lies as a way to avoid responsibility. If lying has, say, a 1% chance of getting discovered, it's a great short-term tactic (it succeeds 99% of the time) but a terrible long-term strategy (if you lie once a week, you have a 99.5% chance of getting caught over a decade).
- The solopreneur who sends weekly emails to their mailing list and sees each as a separate game. Therefore, they consume their audience's trust to generate more sales within a single email instead of building trust to create more sales within a few months.
These three examples show that approaching long-term games as a succession of separate short-term games is a bad strategy despite working great over short time horizons.
Instead, you should play short-term games not to win them but to progress your long-term objectives.
This book teaches you how to do that and much more: how to design and execute Reproducible Success Strategies, how to pre-empt failure and learn from the failures of others, etc.
Foreword by Guy Spier
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What's inside
- The two principles of playing long-term games
and how to apply them to your personal and professional life
- Reproducible Success Strategies
and how to determine whether a strategy is reproducible
- The three properties of good long-term strategies
that can make success almost inevitable (for all realistic goals)
- Why playing long-term games doesn't imply delaying gratification
but actually enables you to enjoy life today
- How to leverage the long term
to open up better options and opportunities
- How to manage risks
without losing time or opportunities
- How to design a strategy that works
without committing to an excessively rigid structure
- The 1% life
and how to achieve it
- And much more…
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"Gem upon gem of insight [...] a must-read [...] for all those who plan on being successful and who take the goal of achieving that success with the deadly, focused, and unwavering seriousness it deserves."
Guy Spier
Founder, Aquamarine Fund
Also available as an audiobook!
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"Gem upon gem of insight [...] a must-read [...] for all those who plan on being successful and who take the goal of achieving that success with the deadly, focused, and unwavering seriousness it deserves."
Guy Spier
Founder, Aquamarine Fund
Also available as an audiobook!