The Infinite Game

How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules, and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable, while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers - only ahead and behind

After reading this and Simon's book I do agree that for me, business is an infinite game. It has helped me to understand why I get frustrated by some in my work. In my view a launch, a client deliverable is just a chapter in a larger story. I find it frustrating when others on teams with me have a finite mindset and approach the client, the project, the deliverable as all that there is and once it is delivered they are done. In my mind, I am like, yes we did need to deliver that, but we are not done. We still want to follow up, make sure they get the value, or use the thing we delivered. The mental models explained in this book help me to frame their approach and understand where they are coming from.

Here is the Link to the Amazon book.