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A-S-S-H-O-L-E, everybody…

OK, so I was channeling Dennis Leary a bit while reading Bob Sutton’s latest book. This book was a casualty of my latest trip to California, in fact it didn’t even make it past the Rockies, though its hard to tell exactly where I was at 30,000 feet. One of the reason I picked up this book almost in spite of itself was the reviews I read on Amazon. I’m glad I spent some time with the book, because its not as straight forward as it seems.

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So, I’m starting this post with a a bit of a back story. I’ve been a bit busy the last couple of weeks working on a presentation that I gave at the I-many summit on Game Theory and Contract Theory. I’ve done quite a bit of reading for it, thanks to my buddy Mike Yu, who helped with a good syllabus given by one of his old professors on Game Theory. I also read some rather challenging books on how to optimize contract theory problems. It went quite well, with one dissenting comment amongst the overwhelmingly positive comments. I’ll try to see what I can do to get a link of the presentation onto the blog (Accenture own the IP on it).

One thing that went really well for me, was a game I played of the IT Contractor’s Dilemma, which is essentially a modified version of the prisoner’s dilemma in which the payoffs are monetary concerning defection or cooperation on the scope of a project as seen from the Business User and IT contractor’s perspectives. The game itself, aside from a couple of people who were struggling with it, really resonated with the attendees. For those unfamiliar with the prisoner’s dilemma it goes like this.

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