Exec Chess - Chess in Business, Leadership and Life
Exec Chess is short for execute or executive and refers to the adjective for executive as one having the power to put plans, actions or laws into effect. We explore how executive power in chess relates to the emboldened in business, leadership and life.
Episodes
15 episodes
Transformational Growth for Chess Players
We apply the concept of transformational growth to chess players. We explore what chess players need to learn, improve and grow. But the episode discuss some key differences between improvement at chess, performance at blitz and the...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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38:50
Transformation For Professionals
We explore the transformational growth possible often with a paradigm shift but at a minimum through self-awareness sufficient to execute lasting professional growth. Specifically, the individual aims for transformation to a higher state ...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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28:09
Attacking in Strategy Sports & Games
This is part one of a three part exploration into strategic thinking found in many applicable sports and games. It is a deep dive into an aspect of game theory relating to offense and defense.This podcast is intended for those int...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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32:35
Method: Extended Concentration
In today's work and school environment, the responsibility is on the individual to maintain productivity. While there is a heightened flexibility, productivity often requires periods of intense concentration and careful attention to detai...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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32:25
Open or Closed
How does a model for categorizing and understanding the world feed our self-identity? Does it empower us to understand ourselves and the larger world as a whole? Or does it create limitations and takeaway tools to meet future challe...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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34:16
Applied: Following Your Intuition
This exploration feeds off the ideas set in the podcast about the subconscious (S1 E7). Many successful people are very passionate about their intuition, and understood in a clear manner, it can be developed in a powerful way. It is...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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35:05
Avoiding The Fight
Inspiration! In chess, we have a key concept: "One cannot avoid the fight." How do we rise up to meet the challenge and burden of a fight, whether metaphorical on a chessboard or real in practical problems? One can start by un...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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27:10
Its Nature
First Principles - What is its very nature? What is the essence? This line of reasoning is very powerful in chess and in life."The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he t...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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31:52
An Integral Subconscious
Interested in awakening the giant within? Interested in the depth of pure logical reasoning? This would not be the podcast for either. But the subconscious mind is a powerful thing. Sadly, it is often alienated and deni...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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31:21
Answers to Finding Answers
We further explore a sense of wonder and eagerness to find answers, solve problems and overcome challenges both large and small. It is a continuation of an earlier podcast on the same subject, while encouraged prior listening, it is not s...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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41:00
Applied: Personal Paradigm Shift
We dive in for a workshop type format aimed at making a paradigm shift personal. By exploring some examples, we find what it is and what it is not. We identify parameters and factors brought by the individual that will add to the su...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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21:55
Applied: Unrelenting Persistence for Chess Players
This is a workshop type application of the mechanism developed in Podcast 1 called Unrelenting Persistence. This discussion is intended for chess players and specifically adult improvers.
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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17:54
Finding Answers
Problem solving requires answers and ultimately solutions from a wide range of questions. Chess players become obsessed with the best move in a variety of positions, but also must balance that with a good move, especially under time press...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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37:26