• Thinking Strategically

  • The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
  • By: Avinash K. Dixit
  • Narrated by: Mark Delgado
  • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (167 ratings)

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Thinking Strategically

By: Avinash K. Dixit
Narrated by: Mark Delgado
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Publisher's summary

The international best seller - don't compete without it!

A major best seller in Japan, Financial Times top-ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club best seller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneauvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It outlines the basics of good strategy-making and then shows how you can apply them in any area of your life.

©1991 Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

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  • 01-02-14

better read

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Not a good book to listen to because it references several charts and performs many logical proofs.

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Too technical for an audio book

What would have made Thinking Strategically better?

PDF's to accompany the audio.

Would you ever listen to anything by Avinash K. Dixit again?

Probably not, I would rather read it.

What didn’t you like about Mark Delgado’s performance?

A bit robotic.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

It's technically a sound book, but not for audio, unless there are accompanying PDF documents. Narration could probably also have been better.

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Needs a PDF with charts to make the connections

Would you try another book from Avinash K. Dixit and/or Mark Delgado?

this book needs a PDF with charts to make the analysis easier to follow

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Requesting the PDF

Very technical. Can not follow without a PDF for charts.How may I download it pls?

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Don't buy as and audible book

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Not a good choice if you are going to listen to it as opposed to read it.

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Awful narrator.

The topic is interesting, but the narrator makes it difficult to follow. He reads way too fast and very monotonously.

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Horrible narrator :(

I feel like the book has valuable content, but I just can’t stand the narrator :( he sounds like a robot from 80s... couldn’t continue listening after 20 minutes :(

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kind of ok for example of strategic thinking

Good enough for the case study but not inspiring. would have been more interesting with more methodology explained.

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  • 02-22-17

Good content best suited for printed book Not Audio

This book has good content. It touches on a number of mathematical theories and illustrates their application with examples. This is essentially the content of the book and helps you to organize your thoughts objectively when assessing scenarios.
I do not recommend it as an audiobook, however. There are references made to graphical examples aligned with explanations that I'd guess are available on printed or soft version (non audio) version of the book itself. This makes it difficult to follow at times.
Good option to read & perhaps combined with audio to compliment it.

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Not suitable for audiobook

The book is hard to follow and in order to grasp the ideas one must have a text in front.

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