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Tag: Infinite game in business

  • Creating huge margins of safety to keep playing the infinite game

    The infinite game of business is where the players are unknown , time in unlimited and the rules are unknown.

    The goal of players in an infinite game is to keep playing the game.

    10X companies or high performing companies in the infinite game of business , exercise productive paranoia , empirical creativity and fanatic discipline to create huge margins of safety.

    In the infinite game of business when the tide is rough these huge margins of safety safeguard a high performer being knocked out.During good times for luck to help these high performers derive high return on luck firstly they have to survive the rough times via the huge margins of safety.

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book titled “Great By Choice”

  • Victorinox and its Infinite mindset

    Victorinox is the iconic manufacturer of Swiss Army knives which for a long time served as souveneirs or gift items.

    80% of its revenues used to come from the sale of these knives.Post 9/11 there was a ban related to carrying these in the hand luggage.This was a huge setback and the jobs of a lot many employees was at stake.

    Victorinox believes in playing infinite games and used it cash reserved to encourage and innovate even further to compensate for the loss of revenue from Swiss knives.

    This infinite mindset paid rich dividends and led to the birth of watches and fragrances as new product segments.

    This example cited from Simon Sinek’s Infinite Game goes a long way in showing why possessing a long term mindset would surpass all obstacles.