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The telecom war between Reliance Jio and Airtel was only a preamble to the impending battle between Google and Jio. Nitish Kumar broke the mahagathbandhan while seeming to try to bend RJD to his will. All the schmoozing between Trump and Xi hasn’t reduced the North Korean nuclear threat. Could we have predicted these outcomes before they actually happened? Yes we could have—not with IQ or EQ, but with ‘Game Theoretic Quotient’. A new intelligence, a new way of looking at the world. Game Sutra highlights the underlying strategic considerations of entities as diverse as heads of state, bitcoin miners and CEOs of internet companies to explain their decisive choices. Immerse yourself in its heady mix of cogent fact and smart analysis to develop your ‘game theoretic quotient’. Your world will never be the same again.
Navigating the Fog of War
Navigating the Fog of War
Interactions in the real world of business, politics and inter-personal relations take place in a ‘fog of war’. Each party to the interaction has incomplete knowledge about the motivations, abilities and choices of the other parties. The damage resulting from such ‘asymmetric inform-ation’ has been well known since ancient times. Here, the contours of interaction in the absence of complete information are laid out and solutions in the form of screening and signalling are discussed.
Think of Bertie Wooster in Right Ho, Jeeves advising Gussie Fink-Nottle to forego dinner to emphasize the depth of his feeling for the fair Madeline Bassett. The rationale was that Madeline Basset was looking for a true lover, and only a ...
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