Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff

Overview

The international bestseller—don't compete without it!

A major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneuvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It outlines the basics of good strategy making and then shows how you can apply them in any area of your life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393310351
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	04/17/1993
Series:	Norton Paperback
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Avinash K. Dixit is Emeritus John J.F. Sherrerd University Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where he offered his popular freshman course in game theory. He is among the world’s leading economists, having made fundamental contributions in several major fields as well as in game theory. He is the author of many books, including Dixit/Nalebuff: Thinking Strategically (Norton, 1991), Dixit/Pindyck: Investment Under Uncertainty (Princeton University Press, 1994), and Dixit/Nalebuff: The Art of Strategy (Norton, 2009).

Barry J. Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor at the Yale School of Management. Nalebuff applies game theory to business strategy and is the co-founder of one of America's fastest-growing companies, Honest Tea.

Editorial Reviews

I confess that I have never thought of monetary policy or government as a game, but Professors Dixit and Nalebuff succeed brilliantly in clarifying questions we all face in decision-making, elevated or mundane.

Paul A. Volcker

Dixit and Nalebuff set out sure-fire rules for thinking about strategy.

David Henderson - Fortune

Machiavelli is brought up-to-date in this book by Dixit and Nalebuff. They make strategic tools humorous, human, and effective.

Elizabeth Bailey

A gem of a book. It makes some important insights on the frontiers of economics and game theory easily accessible, tremendously enjoyable, and practically useful.

Buron G. Malkiel

To be literate in the modern age, you need to have a general understanding of game theory. Dixit and Nalebuff provide the skeleton key. You'll benefit from Thinking Strategically and enjoy the book.”

Paul Samuelson

A fascinating new book that can be read with real pleasure.... The problem is, of course, that if Dixit and Nalebuff can improve your strategic IQ, they can improve your competitor's as well.

David Warsh - Washington Post

Thinking Strategically gives you the vital components for good and effective negotiating.
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Bob Woolf

A fascinating new book that can be read with real pleasure. . . . The problem is, of course that if Dixit and Nalebuff can improve your strategic IQ, they can improve your competitor's as well—and the Japanese rights were sold months ago.— David Warsh

Washington Post

Dixit and Nalebuff set out sure-fire rules for thinking about strategy.— David Henderson

Fortune