The book explores the strategic parallels between high-stakes poker and the corporate world. It argues that business, like poker, is a game of decision-making under uncertainty, where success depends less on luck and more on calculating odds, reading people, and managing risk.
provides a framework for established companies to execute breakthrough innovations by managing the tension between the "CoreCo" (existing business) and "NewCo" (new venture). It emphasizes that success requires forgetting old practices, borrowing core resources, and learning in unknown territory
"In his compelling, lucid, engaging, straightforward, and highly relevant Soros, Robert Slater takes you inside the mind of a global investing genius and delivers priceless, timeless, and peerless insights into Soros's financial acumen and wide-ranging altruism."
This book is the result of an extraordinary collaborative effort, and I am grateful not only to my coauthors, but to many other academics and consultants who worked with us on this project.