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341: Ex McKinsey expert on war games, John Horn. How to read your competitors

The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving

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How to Be a Successful War Game Strategist

John MacIntosh: I started focusing on understanding competitors. He says McKinsey doesn't usually have competitor, the clients we work with are large major companies that have acted irrationally for years and years to get so large. That led him down this path of how do you understand a competitor when they're not irrational? And why do we think that competitors are irrational when they really aren't?MacIntosh: Game theory gets a bad rap because people assume a game. But the key is really to understand the game you are playing and to design that game you're playing.

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