Exec Chess - Chess in Business, Leadership and Life
Exec Chess is short for execute or executive and refers to the adjective for executive as one having the power to put plans, actions or laws into effect. We explore how executive power in chess relates to the emboldened in business, leadership and life.
Episodes
We apply the concept of transformational growth to chess players. We explore what chess players need to learn, improve and grow. But the episode discuss some key differences between improvement at chess, performance at blitz and the standard for transformational growth. The goal is to seek an increase in our skills and knowledge that has an element of permanents and transforms the chess player. We will identify the four necessa...
We explore the transformational growth possible often with a paradigm shift but at a minimum through self-awareness sufficient to execute lasting professional growth. Specifically, the individual aims for transformation to a higher state of performance in a profession. This often requires understanding many aspects including the necessary mindset, our self-identity, tricks and tools of the profession, the spirit underlying our co...
This is part one of a three part exploration into strategic thinking found in many applicable sports and games. It is a deep dive into an aspect of game theory relating to offense and defense.
This podcast is intended for those interested in strategic thinking. It also includes many useful ways of thinking about the application of what inspires us and teaches us in strategy games. It draws upon the analogy provided by c...
In today's work and school environment, the responsibility is on the individual to maintain productivity. While there is a heightened flexibility, productivity often requires periods of intense concentration and careful attention to detail. We do a deep dive into some of the methods to grow in concentration, intensity and ultimately, performance.
How does a model for categorizing and understanding the world feed our self-identity? Does it empower us to understand ourselves and the larger world as a whole? Or does it create limitations and takeaway tools to meet future challenges? Does our response and inherent choices indicate our overall openness or conversely, resistance to growth? We explore this aspect of chess in the larger world of leadership.
This exploration feeds off the ideas set in the podcast about the subconscious (S1 E7). Many successful people are very passionate about their intuition, and understood in a clear manner, it can be developed in a powerful way. It is formed in the basis of a subconscious providing deliberation, insight and ideas without our focused attention. Once we see the limitations and factors influencing human intuition at the subconscious ...
Inspiration! In chess, we have a key concept: "One cannot avoid the fight." How do we rise up to meet the challenge and burden of a fight, whether metaphorical on a chessboard or real in practical problems? One can start by understanding the essence of the fight and grow to understand how we respond as a warrior or competitor.
First Principles - What is its very nature? What is the essence? This line of reasoning is very powerful in chess and in life.
"The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks." - Mortimer Adler
Interested in awakening the giant within? Interested in the depth of pure logical reasoning? This would not be the podcast for either. But the subconscious mind is a powerful thing. Sadly, it is often alienated and denigrated. One's subconscious is an integral part, necessary to make the mind whole, but we need to understand how ideas and solutions flow between the conscious and the subconscious. A comprehensive approac...
We further explore a sense of wonder and eagerness to find answers, solve problems and overcome challenges both large and small. It is a continuation of an earlier podcast on the same subject, while encouraged prior listening, it is not strictly required. We draw inspiration from several key visionaries with exceptional technical knowledge in their field to strive for a type of problem solving mind set that can really affect chan...
We dive in for a workshop type format aimed at making a paradigm shift personal. By exploring some examples, we find what it is and what it is not. We identify parameters and factors brought by the individual that will add to the success of your personal paradigm shift. Greater focus in the design will produce greater success in the shift or movement along our course of action.
This is a workshop type application of the mechanism developed in Podcast 1 called Unrelenting Persistence. This discussion is intended for chess players and specifically adult improvers.
Problem solving requires answers and ultimately solutions from a wide range of questions. Chess players become obsessed with the best move in a variety of positions, but also must balance that with a good move, especially under time pressure. All of us must balance deeply researched and tested universal answers with quick solution to our variation of a problem. The answers we discover drive our decisions, influence our behavior...
Have you ever wondered how we train, learn and grow? What if we could alter the overall approach or underlying assumptions thus creating a dramatic shift in our progress? What are the components to make such an endeavor successful?
In the episode, we explore how persistence in our key areas of focus lead to an executive-type mechanism propelling us along a course of action. Important parameters narrow the focus, incremental growth adds a vital component and new perspectives refuel progress along our journey.
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