Episode 7

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18th Dec 2021

And Just Like That… a Year Turns

Season's greetings and a quick overview of the upcoming 2022 content | Learner's Digest # 7

Welcome to! the Learner's Digest edition of Business Games.

I wanted to share the festive season's greetings and the best wishes for the year's turn!

Now, I'm not going to get all emotional and write or speak with pathos—it's not that kind of show.

However, the year will turn, and with its turning we will get reflective and nostalgic and hopeful.

I'm saving my reflections for the end of the Experimental Season, which will come in January / February 2022.

And just like that… let us cover where we are and what's happening next.

We are about 60% through our Experimental Season.

We've covered an overview with JP, Experimental Economics with Ananish, corporate experimentation with Dawie, board-room and start-up experimentation and predictions with Melissa, SME experimentation with Ashlee.

The private feed contains twice as many episodes, providing deep dives and connective tissue episodes.

What's left is the following:

  1. Rory Sutherland discussing experimentation and creativity;
  2. A bonus JP episode discussing a sort of a wrap-up where I share with JP what I've learnt through this season and he shares his reflections on complexity;
  3. A lit review of the business articles on experimentation;
  4. A fuller wrap-up where I provide the reflections on the whole season, and the key takeaways.

Most of these episodes will be on the private feed.

Given that this is a turn of the year and it is a festive season, I'm giving my listeners an option to get a trial month of premium content for free.

All you have to do is:

  1. Go to www.business-games.ai and subscribe to the free newsletter.
  2. Then, in early January, watch out in your Inbox for an email with the instructions on how to get your trial month.

Note: it's not advertised and is only available to the free newsletter subscribers—so head over to our website and choose the free subscription.

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About the Podcast

Business Games
Make Better Decisions
An educational podcast where we apply game theory to business, to help you make better decisions under uncertainty.

Check out our website for the public Blog, Executive Newsletter, and Premium content: https://www.business-games.ai/

A combination of original content and guest interviews, packaged into seasons; every season revolves around a single topic.

All topics lead to making better decisions.

Designed for: Senior AND Aspiring Business Decision Makers. Are you a Solopreneur or a Student of Business? We've got content for you, too.

About your host

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Andrey Ivanov

Born in the USSR; grew up in West Auckland, NZ (Waitākere, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa); spent all my 20s in Deutschland (Mannheim, Frankfurt, Berlin) & Italia (Milano); back "out West" in Tāmaki Makaurau. A "Westie", a JAFA, vaguely Germanic, Soviet-born, a Kiwi—all in that order and proudly so. Accent vaguely Germanic and fully my own, ja?

PhD (Economics) from Universität Mannheim (Germany) where I co-authored papers on pricing & industrial organization with McKinsey consultants. NOT AN EXPERT.

12+ years strategy consultant (Germany, Italy, NZ); grew own team to 7 employees; large, listed corporations hired my firm; longest return client relationships 7, 5, & 3 years (must've been doing something right, eh?). Occasional Master thesis supervisor.

As I learnt more from being "in" business, wanted to get back to teaching and share this experience; at heart, an entrepreneurial researcher & a researching entrepreneur, an experimenter, learner, an educator & a sharer. Argh, it sounds like I'm full of myself, eh? …

I take my work very seriously & I don't take myself seriously at all—is something I learnt from one of my early clients & one of the best leaders I had the privilege to work with.