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| No Limit: The Texas Hold'Em Guide to Winning in Business | 
 enlarge | Authors: Donald G. Krause, Jeff Carter
Publisher: AMACOM
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 216315
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0814480640
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.409
EAN: 9780814480649
ASIN: 0814480640
Publication Date: March 12, 2008
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Can you handle this? March 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is not for the faint of heart. No Limit puts it out there for the reader. Millions will read this but few will have the will to act and make an impact on their lives.
The concepts described in No Limit are critical to success when the stakes are high. This is about the realities of business in today's hypercompetitive environment. .
Donald Krause and Jeff Carter combine to provide a unique and powerful set of tools that can dramatically increase one's ability to influence and lead. They seem to combine game theory, psychoanalysis and various negotiation models into an innovative analogous format that has yet to be documented.
What you can learn about business strategy by playing Poker February 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
From the back cover:
"If you ever wondered how some people are able to take risk and seem to win more than others, this is the book for you. Playing Hold'Em teaches skills that balance intellect with emotion, resulting in decision making competence that would otherwise take many years to develop" -- Ray Garcia, Strategy Coach, Alterwork LLC
I read the "The Art of War for Executives" by Donald Krause many years ago and wondered at the time how I could practice what I read and try out some of the strategies. It was an entertaining read and helped me reflect on the competitive business environment.
Mr. Krause teamed up with Jeff Carter in "No Limit" to help provide an understanding of how Poker, Texas Hold'Em, can be used to understand strategic decision making as an essential skill required to succeed in business. This could be generalized to playing strategy games of all sorts as a practice in exercising judgment, smarts, and control under specific rules of the game.
The Art of Was was about applying strategy at the macro level for the entire army or company within a market. No Limit gets at the individuals ability to think strategically within the constraints of the cards they are dealt, their own inner struggles with risk and expectations, when to halt and when to stay in the game, how to read the players and the table, and how to play the odds. This is not something that one can learn easily in business school or the work place. No Limit affords the reader insights into how to use the game of Poker to learn about their own strengths and weakness and how to work within those characteristics to achieve the goal of winning.
The book is equally interesting for the avid Poker player as it is for the readers of business oriented books. The strategies that can be practiced within Poker can be observed watching others play the game as well. Poker has an enormous following with regular Poker tournaments showing on Cable and Satellite TV.
Organizations like Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) have formed to create a forum for using Poker to enhance business skills. This is a critically important missing aspect of most business school programs and unfortunately the workplace may not be conducive to experimenting with individual strategies. This leaves Poker as the safe haven to learn the strategies that can be put into use in a business setting.
The No Limit book will provide a way of thinking about the process of using strategy within the game but as in any learning activity you'll need to put it into practice to really have the impact. Fortunately it is fairly easy to get a Poker game going and Texas Hold'Em is a fast and easy form of Poker to pick up.
The books format is easy to read and employs a summary format for important things to remember. It has some background on Poker Texas Hold'Em, just enough for those unfamiliar with the game to appreciate its appeal. For those who are already Poker player the strategies you can use immediately and translate them into the workplace dynamics.
I personally know one of the authors, Jeff Carter, and I am quoted on the back cover so admittedly I'm biased. I can say Jeff is not only an avid Poker Texas Hold'Em player but an insightful business executive. He has an uncanny ability to read the table an figure out the best move to make given the cards.
You will not only enjoy this book but you will find yourself referring to it as you put into practice the many strategies you'll learn.
Ray Garcia
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