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    Games Foxes Play: Planning for Extraordinary Times
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    Games Foxes Play: Planning for Extraordinary Times

    By Clem Sunter

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    Was a massive terrorist strike on Western soil imaginable before 9/11? Yes, if you read the letter to the US president contained in The Mind of a Fox, the No.1 bestseller published in June 2001. The book has since transformed scenario planning from an esoteric discipline into a practical model widely used in the business world. Now the authors, Chantell Ilbury and Clem Sunter, have extended their model to allow companies to have an intense strategic conversation based on the idea that business is a game which you have to understand before examining different strategies to play it. They argue that leaders with a balanced set of beliefs and the capability of adapting to changes (foxes) are more likely to win the game in the extraordinary times we live in.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHuman & Rousseau
    Release dateApr 1, 2011
    ISBN9781920323554
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    Clem Sunter

    Clem Sunter was born in England and read politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford before moving to Zambia in 1971 to work for Anglo American Central Africa. In 1973 he came to Anglo headquarters in South Africa, where he spent most of his career in the gold and uranium division, serving as its chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1996. In the early 1980s, Sunter established a scenario planning function at Anglo with teams in London and Johannesburg. He is probably best known for his ‘High Road/Low Road’ scenarios for South Africa in the 1980s. His 2001 book, "The Mind of a Fox", co-authored with Chantell Ilbury, anticipated a major terrorist attack on a western city before the 9/11 tragedy in New York. The book sold more than 50 000 copies. Since 1987, Clem has authored or co-authored 18 books, many of them bestsellers. He has given scenario presentations worldwide, including lectures at the Harvard Business School in Boston and at the Central Party School in Beijing. Sunter married Margaret Rowland in 1969 and they have one daughter and two sons. His hobbies include walking and rock music although he hung up his guitar professionally in 1964 shortly after his band played at the same gig as the Rolling Stones.

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