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November 1, 2007

Grandmaster plays on the wrong board

Book review on Financial Times Business Life page

How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves – From the Board to the Boardroom
By Garry Kasparov

Amazon US; Amazon UK

The notion that business is like war is not new. Sun Tzu’s Art of War pops up on many a corporate leader’s bookshelf, with its gnomic lessons on how to defeat an enemy.

Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion, has a similar rationale in this book. His point is that a game of battle, strategy and tactics aimed at defeating a single opponent can teach us about business and politics.

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