Strategic Decision Making from the Battlefield to the Boardroom

The greatest war heroes in history triumphed by anticipating every move of their enemies. That's why wargaming, a strategy used for centuries in the military, has now become essential for business and government leaders to survive and thrive in today's era of heightened competition and unforeseeable crises.

In WARGAMING FOR LEADERS: Strategic Decision Making from the Battlefield to the Boardroom (McGraw-Hill, December 12, 2008), Mark Herman, world-renowned wargame designer for Booz Allen Hamilton, with coauthors Mark Frost and Robert Kurz, explores the strategies learned from wargames designed and staged for the U.S. Army, global corporations, and nonprofit groups, revealing how these exercises led to significant decisions and effective competitive advantage.

The authors tell how they used wargaming to help companies like Caterpillar and ConAgra face competitive threats, and how they have been using the same approach to fight post-9/11 terrorism, HIV/AIDS in India, pandemic flu, and Alzheimer's, and in over two decades of work with the U.S. military battling foes like Iraq.