Chess Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game (High Performance): 1 (UK PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS Management / Business)

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This is a rich metaphor, that I'm finding by itself is a great concept to help in thinking about evolving personally in your role with increasing responsibility. In chess, every piece moved differently than the others, and it took me a while to get used to the complex system.

Shortly thereafter, I became the sixteenth corporate employee — my first job: working in the warehouse.

The main difference between the two games is that the goal of checkers is to capture all of your opponent’s pieces off the board whereas the objective of chess is to deliver checkmate to your opponent’s king (checkmate: player’s king is under threat of being captured and no other moves can remove the threat).

By drawing parallels between chess strategies and real-world challenges, individuals can develop a strategic mindset applicable to various endeavors.Sets up under an imagined story of a business needing to be turned around and the new ceo who is mentored to do it. Perhaps this complexity finds its energy in the scope of your enterprise, or it may merely be a function of increased volume. Insider’s take – You’ll have the privilege of learning from someone who knows her or his topic inside-out.