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25th Oct 2021

“Human Mind Is Bad at Seeing Things It Doesn’t Expect to See”

What is Business Games, and what's in it for you? Who is it for? What is our promise?

Next week, I'll introduce Season One—but in this episode, I introduce the full concept of this educational podcast + newsletter series where we apply game theory to business, to help you make better decisions under uncertainty.

Contents

  1. Welcome to! Business Games! [00:06]
  2. The Target Audience: Who Is It For? Who Is the Hero of This Journey? [01:10]
  3. The Genesis: A Prologue [04:17]
  4. What's in a Name? Business Games, Decoded [09:22]
  5. What to Expect from the Structure of the Seasons? How I Analyse and Learn and Why This Is Relevant? [18:48]
  6. My Promise to You + What I Ask from You [28:25]
  7. The Upcoming Seasons [37:26]
  8. The Homework [40:55]
  9. The Disclaimer [44:38]

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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.