Effective Risk Strategies

... seeing someone playing risk can tell you a lot about his wit and character. A bad performance can totally undermine the respect I might have for that person.

you just reminded me about these consulting guys who released their patent about a year ago...

As their English version didn't say much, I had to translate the page for you... however there is no translation link available (due our stupid language), therefore I copy-paste the whole translation here (I hope it's understandable):

Situation evaluation and decision making training

The poker training and the decision making...
A successful marketing one needs similar decision making abilities, than for a professional poker player.

Green baize, a player, a divisor, different coloured token towers are effective. And the card. Two in the hand, five on the table. Poker. The stake huge, and one person may be the winner only. Why is he a dot? Many people were thinking about this already since the poker started by means of a conqueror on Hungary certainly. Why is he a dot? Why not the other one? Was he lucky? Did he know his way round his other game, his tactics? In a head counted better? Was he the most patient one? Did he bring the best decisions possibly? This is all of them together presumably. Somebody else would smile if one would have been missing only the big heap behind money.
Acquaintance from somewhere the situation? If we say the poker table an oval one, glass we exchange it for a conference table? We believe it only throughout, who and why will be there successful…? What may a businessman learn from the poker? What the knowledge of the poker may give an B2B for marketing one?

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Who did not remember him yet beside the conference table: if only I would know it, what there is in exchange of the partner, what will be his next pull? The finding of the parallel is not heavy between the poker and a negotiation.
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Only a little fortune would have been needed in order for the business to be ours - we may believe it in connection with a lost client, a unsuccessful offer. The winning sheet was missing, you are the good strategy?

The poker table the marketplace, where the players, similarly to the firms - from scant resources, beside scant information - they struggle for the success with the maximum utilization of their abilities. Our experiences indicate that the marketing ones and the poker players encounter similar decision dilemmas during their activity. They get on an identical road to the correct solution, the achievement of the expected optimum, their decision making model tallies.
Decision making the participants acquire the world's most widespread strategic card game, Texas in the course of our training Hold’em. The game learning an express and his practice recognize the strategic elements with the business concern residing in the poker, thinking developing the conscious, bargain strategy with a situation basis and decision making, the system-oriented one hereby meanwhile.

Decision-making a training lays a considerable emphasis on the contact of the decision and the result, the subsequent analysis of the decisions arising in the course of the negotiations, and onto the processing of the potential failure experience stemming from them. The participants' opportunity opens analyzing their decisions jointly, themselves and onto the cognition of their colleagues' decision making approaches, furthering the development of the team spirit with this, and the every day common work success. the participants learn to analyze the negotiation situations according to new viewpoints under two of the totally practical days of the training, and to avoid the decision making traps residing in them.

By practicing poker and having business examples study cases we introduce you the basics of poker, decision mechanism which could be used both in business and other areas of every day life.

The goal of the poker training
Raising the business decision making to a more conscious, more efficient level is the recognition of the necessities of the poker game, his dynamics with his help.

The poker a training digests the next topics:

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The decision one and decision making traps, and the tumblers springing from them
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The problem of the asymmetric risk assessment
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The correct interpretation of the context system of the decision and the result
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The suitable approach of the failure stemming from the decision and his processing
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The fundamental player/man types, they his motivations and the equivalent negotiation and competition strategies
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The role of the probabilities in the course of the daily decision making
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The expected analysis of the scant resources happening based on a value
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The fundamental parallels of the decision making system of the poker and the competitive market
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The analysis of information is necessary to the decisions
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The contact of the unique decisions and the long-term efficiency
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Conscious decision making from the madam of the earlier investments independently
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The application of the aspect system being equal to the decision situation the routine based instead of decisions
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Texas Hold'em the rules of poker, his strategic elements

The assumption of risk the technical criteria of a training:
Proposed staff numbers: 6-8 heads
Time span: 2 days