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The element of variability also turns a seemingly mundane task into an engaging, gamelike experience.

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The game is about vision, opportunity, agility, inspired action, passion, innovation, and celebration – not just project management…

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When it comes to making an impression, differentiation is the name of the game. Confound expectation. Shake it up.

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In a soft negotiating game the standard moves are to make offers and concessions, to trust the other side, to be friendly, and to yield as necessary to avoid confrontation.

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…you can change the game simply by starting to play a new one.

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The one-text procedure not only shifts the game away from positional bargaining, it greatly simplifies the process both of inventing options and of deciding jointly on one.

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Waiting for the right time is a high-cost game. In addition to making delaying tactics explicit and negotiating about them, consider creating a fading opportunity for the other side.

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…too many top executives are being picked on the basis of whether they can talk a good game… rather than whether they can actually run the enterprise at hand.

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…the drive for real, individual accomplishments seems to have turned into a game of virtual one-upmanship, based on the illusion of perfection.

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We would all do well to remember that life is one long game as well.

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