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'The Infinite Game' has influenced corporate strategies and business models by promoting the concept of infinite-minded leadership. This approach encourages leaders to prioritize people over resources, especially during challenging times. It emphasizes the importance of morale, motivation, commitment, and the desire to engage, which are seen as internal currencies. Infinite-minded leaders understand that these elements drive discretionary effort, creativity, and teamwork, which are essential for long-term performance. Therefore, businesses adopting this model tend to see investing in people not as a cost, but as a strategic move for sustainable success.
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There are two currencies required to play the infinite game: will and resources. Resources are tangible material elements like money that come from outside sources like investors and customers. Will comes from inside sources and includes morale, motivation, commitment, and the desire to engage. In hard times, when the two currencies conflict, finite-minded leaders prioritize resources resorting to decisions like layoffs and extreme cost-cutting. Infinite-minded leaders resist financial pressure and prioritize people. While finite-minded organizations see investing in people as a cost, infinite-minded leaders understand that will drives discretionary effort, creativity, and teamwork that are essential to long-term performance.
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