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Bob Rice - Three Moves Ahead - What Chess Can Teach You About Business
Date: 08/20/2008 Welcome to a Leadership Development edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton Reporting. Bob Rice was a long-time partner at Wall Street's prestigious Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy. He left to start a software venture that was purchased by Viewpoint, a NASDAQ company of which he later became CEO. He is currently a Managing Partner of Tangent Capital, which structures financial products for hedge funds, a member of the "New York Angels" venture finance group, and on the faculty of Liminal Group, a New York City based executive training and management consulting firm. Bob's new book, Three Moves Ahead - What Chess Can Teach You About Business, (Josey Bass), shows how classic chess strategies address the number one problem of Information Age executives: how to move quickly in the face of incalculable complexities and unexpected change. Talking Points: Questions Peter Asked Bob: How would you explain the concept of your book to someone who's never played chess? Even if you've never played chess you've probably heard of Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov - Bob give us a brief history of what's happed in world chess over the past 100 years. You attended the world championship chess match in 1992. Who else was in the room? What resulted from those encounters? Let's talk about the title of your book, Three Moves Ahead. What does that mean mathematically? If you scan the business section of any Boarders or B&N you'll find a plethora of titles about execution, leadership, innovation, game theory, lots of success formulas. What's your take on this? You write in your book about a trek you made to Redmond to pitch your then start-up to Microsoft. Tell us about that meeting. I want to have you discuss the First Mover chapter, because you have a facinating comparison between the first move on a chess board and first mover advantage in business.. and how you relate this to the dot-com bust and the GBQ theory. You borrowed a term from Mark Hurd, the CEO of HP - "red-shifting" can you explain what this means and how it relates? What do you mean by priority zero? You recommend getting a chess clock for your desk? One of the topics you cover is something everyone in business can appreciate is overload. Most executives and managers I know are trying to juggle way too many things at the same time... and, at the same time, if these people could learn to delegate... Bob, talk to me about pawns and knowledge workers. One last idea I'd like to discuss. Although Three Moves Ahead is written from a business perspective it doesn't take much imagination to apply these concepts to one's career. Foneshow does not charge for this service, but standard or other charges may apply from your carrier. Please check your plan to make sure. To stop receiving text messages at anytime, text STOP to 44636. For help, text HELP to 44636 or email support@4info.net. |
