Clegg explores how treating business like a finite game you can win damages trust, cooperation, and innovation. A finite mindset in an infinite game leads to decline. The real game never ends.
There's no such thing as winning business. But if you listen to the language of so many business leaders, it becomes abundantly clear that they don't know the game they're playing in. They talk about being number one or being the best or beating their competition. And this is a problem because when we play with a finite mindset in an infinite game, when we play to win in a game that has no finish line, there are some predictable and consistent outcomes. The big ones being the decline of trust, the decline of cooperation, and the decline of innovation. We have to play for the game we are in. And most businesses play with a finite mindset.
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