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

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Successful chess players develop a keen sense of positional understanding, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each piece and their overall position on the board. This skill guides decision-making and long-term planning. At getAbstract, we summarize books* that help people understand the world and make it better. Whatever we select for our library has to excel in one or the other of these two core criteria:

Concrete Examples – You’ll get practical advice illustrated with examples of real-world applications or anecdotes. From famous openings to brilliant endgame techniques, chess masters have devised an array of strategies and tactics. Understanding and applying these methods can enhance one’s overall gameplay and decision-making abilities.You can’t be sure your investment in individual leaders will pay off. Some will rise to the challenge; some won’t. Some leaders stay with the company and others leave. However, high-performance organizations make the bet. They know if you can’t grow your leadership capacity, you’ll never reach your full potential as an organization. It is hard to imagine leaders who ask people to give their best without helping them know what success looks like“Or, why it matters,

Leading has never been easy. From our first experiment trying to get our classmates to follow us or receiving our first official assignment at work, leadership has always demanded our best effort. That hasn’t changed—but something else has: the complexity of the problems we face and the organizations we lead has increased exponentially. Chess is a game of choices, and business is, too. We win or lose based on our choices and how well we execute against those choices. Planning is where we make those fundamental choices. Most of us need multiple mentors in our life. Someone who can coach, encourage, and counsel us in one arena may not be best suited to do so in another.The quest for high performance always starts with the leader—so does Bet on Leadership. You have got to set the pace for your team. People do what people see. If you’re not learning and growing, don’t expect them to, either. Absolutely. This is a great one. Especially for leaders who aren't big readers. This is a very fast and simple read, so it's very approachable.