Every Move Must Have a Purpose, Bruce Pandolfini
Every Move Must Have a Purpose, Bruce Pandolfini
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Every Move Must Have a Purpose
Strategies from Chess for Business and Life

Author: Bruce Pandolfini

Narrator: Bruce Pandolfini

Unabridged: 1 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/03/2025


Synopsis

Fluid and elegant, yet rigorous and rule-bound, chess is a game that seduces, confounds, and hooks. Now, world-renowned chess master and Fortune 500 business consultant Bruce Pandolfini shows readers how chess principles can be simply and logically applied to any business or life situation.
No specific chess knowlege is needed, but after reading Every Move Must Have A Purpose, you will share with the most astute chess players the secret to thinking on your feet. From the celebrated "Chairman of the Board" comes the secrets of strategy that everyone will find useful.
Crisply and engagingly written, with entertaining examples and chess anecdotes, Every Move Must Have A Purpose will improve your strategic thinking so you'll never again debate your next move.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Major on June 12, 2013

Listened to this book: average business advice; really good chess stories.......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on December 20, 2020

It's a thin book that overgeneralizes in trying to connect to chess and business examples in each case. Overall, I would still highly recommend it as a meta-cognitive refresher on how to think about thinking and it has some great stories about chess grandmasters and the lessons told through their ga......more

Goodreads review by Gus on June 16, 2023

I enjoyed the short stories about some of the famous chess games and the strategies that grandmasters employed in them. It mentions among others Alekhine, Morphy, Capablanca, and triggered my interest to explore those particular games more. It doesn’t teach chess tactics and there’s not a single dia......more

Goodreads review by Claire on February 01, 2019

I was struggling to remember the exact details about the university I toured in Philly before my computer gave up. It's not important in comparison with how Pandolfini had laid out these fifteen principles with a droll "chessary" (glossary) at the end to explain what everything means. You, too, may b......more

Goodreads review by Jill on September 24, 2022

Stick to Pandolfini reflections on chess. Stories and how he tied these to unique strategies is a 4.5. Application to business situations/strategies/scenarios, too generic and under-developed to make much sense, a 2. Still, I enjoyed the book and will re-read - it’s brief and historically interestin......more