WHY CEO’S MUST BE GOOD CHESS PLAYERS?

Chess is a game of strategy, planning, action, observation and like all other fields in life, winning. Players have several levels of predications, anticipation and visions, a good player should use his army (team) well, first by understanding each team member in terms of abilities, strength and when to use him, where and how.

When you play Chess, you are actually the brain, even the (king) is just another member of the team, you have a responsibility to protect your assets, to keep your key-players safe and use your soldiers effectively and efficiently even when you lose some of them. If you can do so in real life then you will understand what you should do, you must make sure that all your team members have one goal, they work together in harmony to achieve the (target), every step counts, you sometimes sacrifice some of your team members for the sake of others to live after all you have limited resources and budget to maintain.

Chess helped me a lot to understand people management, when any of your team members reaches the last line, in Chess it has the ability to chose what to become – to be (promoted).

I urge all CEOs to play Chess regularly, try to apply what they know in management on the chess board, it is an excellent people-management exercise, when you realize that each decision you take affect the lives of your entire team members, then you will start have the ability to predict the consequences of your decisions, even if they as sometimes hard to take.

Life is a chess board, be a good player, be a leader.