What Entrepreneurs can Learn from Chess?

Veröffentlicht am: Mar 27, 2017
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All work and no play makes you a dull entrepreneur.
Anyone needs to play, and in your case, the best game to play is chess somewhere outside under a big tree, but this is part of the guide on how to become a philosopher and a businessman. For now, you need to become a businessman, and a chess game can teach a lot about it. Or you can watch cinema's most celebrated chess game, Bergman's the Seventh Seal.
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” Goethe said this about three centuries ago and maybe he was thinking about matters of state or literature. Nowadays, chess lessons definitely apply to business and entrepreneurship. Business Insider has a list of 28 executives who were exceptional at chess
http://www.businessinsider.com/29-executives-who-are-exceptional-at-chess-2012-7#

Business lessons from chess

1. When you see a good move you look for a better one, when you have a good idea try to make it a great idea.
2. Check carefully something that appears to be free of risk.
3. Flexibility. You should know how to move when things don't go according to the plan.
4. Fair play and ethics
5. Patience
6. Tactics, chess is 99 percent tactics
7. No one has ever won by taking only forward moves.
8. You should learn le regle du jeu in order to win.
9. A little lie may help. Looking confident when you don't know what to do can make the adversary feel uncomfortable.
10. Sacrifice is necessary
11. It's okay to lose
12. Take action, no matter if you move back or make a strong attack. Taking action may save you.
13. You notice patterns. In business like in chess is easy to spot patterns that allow you to predict the next move.
14. Do you see risk or opportunity, if you don't move you will never know.
15. No one ever won by playing alone
16. At the end of the game the pawn and the king go back into the same box. This means that you and each member of the team are the same. Titles are just puffs of pride.
17. No duty to retreat or stand your ground. When you have all the confidence you need it is easy to stand for what you believe or to pursue a big dream
18. Have fun. You can't be happy if you don't enjoy what you're doing.

You can either start playing chess right now or build and improve your entrepreneurial skills with the Youth Citizens Entrepreneurship Competition.

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eduheal

21.7.2020Antworten

Powerful lessons. To the young persons in this compus, we need to read this.
Most important, wether we win or loose, we all in the world. So lets is support each other.

Thank you campus administrator for using chess to help us explore what the game is all about

togeda

20.7.2020Antworten

Great lesson from playing chess. “When you see a good move you look for a better one, when you have a good idea try to make it a great idea.
2. Check carefully something that appears to be free of risk.
3. Flexibility. You should know how to move when things don’t go according to the plan.
4. Fair play and ethics
5. Patience
6. Tactics, chess is 99 percent tactics
7. No one has ever won by taking only forward moves.
8. You should learn le regle du jeu in order to win.
9. A little lie may help. Looking confident when you don’t know what to do can make the adversary feel uncomfortable.
10. Sacrifice is necessary
11. It’s okay to lose
12. Take action, no matter if you move back or make a strong attack. Taking action may save you.
13. You notice patterns. In business like in chess is easy to spot patterns that allow you to predict the next move.
14. Do you see risk or opportunity, if you don’t move you will never know.
15. No one ever won by playing alone
16. At the end of the game the pawn and the king go back into the same box. This means that you and each member of the team are the same. Titles are just puffs of pride.
17. No duty to retreat or stand your ground. When you have all the confidence you need it is easy to stand for what you believe or to pursue a big dream
18. Have fun. You can’t be happy if you don’t enjoy what you’re doing”

Campus members this article is not just a monument for us to watch but a great lesson for our success. Please create time to read.

shuhrakoofi

18.8.2017Antworten

interesting. Thanks.

agelessbabyk

23.7.2017Antworten

Hmm, real words.

Oyeyemi Pitan

28.3.2017Antworten

wow! lovely and inspiring write up.

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