Audience: Anyone concerned with improving strategic thinking or negotiation skills
Competencies: Strategic thinking, negotiation skills
Program formats: Three hour lecture with demonstration to two-day workshop
This unique and unforgettable program is based on the best selling book Samurai Chess: Mastering Strategic Thinking Through the Martial Art of the Mind by Michael J. Gelb and Grandmaster Raymond Keene, O.B.E., 14 times British Champion and Chess columnist of the London Times and International Herald Tribune. The program begins with an overview of the history of chess and the development of the Samurai tradition. Drawing from this historical context, participants will be introduced to the seven Samurai principles of strategy and their relationship to chess, business, and life.
The program highlight is a simultaneous chess display (against up to 100 participants) by Grandmaster Keene. Grandmaster Keene will then review, by memory, any participant’s game, and offer an analysis in terms of the Samurai principles. The program concludes with an in-depth discussion of the implications of these strategic principles for the development of intellectual capital in your organization.
Note: A pre-program session will be held for anyone unfamiliar with the basic rules and strategies of chess so that everyone will benefit.
