The Infinite Game Author:Simon Sinek A bold framework for leadership in today's ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Games like basketball and chess are finite, with firm rules and clear endpoints... more ».
Business, for example, is infinite -- there's ultimately no such thing as "winning" because there's always a new set of challenges. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. Those who thrive in the long run are those who play by infinite rules. They do things that enable them to out-maneuver, out-innovate, and outlast their competitors. Trying to play an infinite game with a finite mindset can be catastrophic. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we're in? In this revelatory new book, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset.
On one hand, none of us can resist the fleeting thrills of a promotion earned or a tournament won, yet these rewards fade quickly. In pursuit of a Just Cause, we will commit to a vision of a future world so appealing that we will build it week after week, month after month, year after year. Although we do not know the exact form this world will take, working toward it gives our work and our life meaning. Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring organizations. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead us into the future.
Are you playing the finite game or the infinite game? In The Infinite Game, Sinek applies game theory to explore how great businesses achieve long-lasting success. He finds that building long-term value and healthy, enduring growth - that playing the infinite game - is the only thing that matters to your business.
Contents: Why I wrote this -- Winning -- Finite and infinite games -- Just cause -- Cause, no cause -- Keeper of the cause -- The responsibility of business (revised) -- Will and resources -- Trusting teams -- Ethical fading -- Worthy rival -- Existential flexibility -- The courage to lead -- Afterword.« less