The Infinite Game

 

Shirley J.       Adult Non-Fiction             The benefits of infinite management over finite management

The Infinite Game by Sinek Simon   272 pages

This was an excellent read explaining the very different management styles of infinite and finite.  Infinite seeing the big picture and future, finite focuses on today and now, being more numbers conscious in the present.   Infinite is innovative and doing research and development into how to continue to be viable tomorrow finite tends to stay to the tried and true what worked in the past will work now.   The author cites many instances where CEOs of major known companies became short-sighted concentrating on sales, building wealth today but not looking for new ways to serve consumers and stay current keeping an eye on trends in order to stay viable and continue to move into the future in order to stay in business and continue to be a leader.   Many companies that have started out aggressively building a reputation for remaining in the know and serving up what the consumer wants, other companies believing they are superior and set the standard have remained doing the same thing the same way until it is too late and they are either forced into bankruptcy, forced to close their doors or best case scenario wake up in time to get new management in place to save the company and make it relevant to current and future users not depending on what has worked in the past, but looking outside the box to the path to be on to take the company into the future (and stay relevant).   Excellent advice given here.  I recommend this to middle schoolers on up - great tips for future career building with insight into progress not stagnation.