The chess analogy is common amongst management writers, but it is fatally flawed. Firstly, chess is infinitely simpler than actual life — not least because ‘pawns’ in real life resent being treated as pawns. Second because even grandmaster chess players rely on a mix of intuition / associative memory, heuristics and only partly on actual planning to win.

— jacques_chester 26 days ago

— Hacker News

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