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The Art of Strategy
- A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
- Narrated by: Matthew Dudley
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve simple common sense, much is counterintuitive, and it can only be mastered by developing a new way of seeing the world. Using a diverse array of rich case studies - from pop culture, TV, movies, sports, politics, and history - the authors show how nearly every business and personal interaction has a game-theory component to it. Mastering game theory will make you more successful in business and life, and this lively book is the key to that mastery.
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- Amanda
- 2018-08-08
Just get the print version
Don't try to listen to this book in audio version. It refers to charts and diagrams so often I don't understand why there is even an audio version available.
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- Motorjaw
- 2015-01-28
Completely misleading title
The book is mainly centered around game theory and should have been called the science of strategy. 1/3 of the book was the narrator reading algebraic formulas and referring to tables that a frequent commuter listener can see.
With the exception of a couple of interesting anecdotes, the book does not provide anything in the way of the art of strategy the way say the art of war does. The authors add nothing in terms of insights but instead use story to describe other's theories.
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- William Ng
- 2017-09-14
not meant as an audio book, missing key info
the stories are there, but during the read thru, many times it refers to charts or maps that cannot be expressed or is omitted outright in this audio book.
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- Dylan Hendricks
- 2018-04-16
Audiobook doesn’t include necessary PDFs of charts and graphics
This book may or may not be great, but I can’t tell because it constantly refers to charts and graphics that are obviously not narratable. The opening narration of the audiobook suggests that a pdf of these charts is available at the site the audiobook was downloaded from, but having now scoured Audible, Amazon and the book’s own website I can find no such thing. So not recommended unless they figure that out.
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- Martin Fierro
- 2016-04-14
Strategic Interaction: How to Do Well on Purpose
Excellent presentation of critical principles. Interesting because the principles are presented through stories. My only caveat would be that the authors occasionally slip into talking as if all strategic actors act in a way that comports 100% with traditional economic theory. However, as behavioral economics has demonstrated persuasively actual human beings depart from these assumptions at least some of the time.
Provides significant amount of game theory as applied.
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- William Bonvini
- 2020-08-05
good, but better to get a paper version!
too many numbers and diagrams to look at. it's a good book, but it doesn't make sense to listen to it
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- Michael McCaffrey
- 2017-07-25
Great book in its category
There aren't many good books on this subject available... that fact bumps the rating to 5 stars for me. Some of the math was very hard to follow with just listening. But there's a lot of value in the book even without that.
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- manny
- 2016-08-26
Special power
Such an awesome book! Feels like I gained superpowers after this - great intro to appreciating game theory
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-07-12
Better read than narrated.
The book was great but is better in read format where the user can see calculations and participate in exercises.
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- c. spence
- 2019-02-22
Disappointing
Business group I'm in chose this book, we all read it and were all disappointed, only one of the 4 we've done so far (we do 1/quarter) that we felt this way and it was unanimous.
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- ahmed
- 2022-05-02
Not what i was expected
Not what i was expected, it’s very very long And boring, it could be better.
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