Chess-Stress-Mess-Cess

Chess is the game of life, when you get into troubles (stress), you encounter problems, and your approach either compounds it, or solves it to lead you to another trouble that is going to emerge as a problem (mess). For all this you always pay a price (cess).

Two people sitting opposite one another and staring at some 16 pieces for hours together, as if a bout of paralysis has struck their tongue, meditating with open eyes, and the neck craned at almost 30 degrees, to determine who will emerge as the eventual winner. How boring is what one thinks, when viewing the game from outside. Be a part of it and play with an equal, and this can be akin to a game of stratagem.

You have five different pieces (Queen, Rook, Bishop, Horse, and Pawns) that can move in three different ways (Straight, diagonal, and crooked), fighting to protect the supremacy of a single piece – the King. In pure percentage terms 6.25% being served by 93.75%.

Digital Divide they say, Urban rural, or Call it the consuming class, or Purchasing Power or, Developed and Developing Nations. The minority few rule the majority many, and history is replete with examples that talk about revolutions or uprisings or movements that dethrone regimes, rulers, nations.

In `The Challenge-Response Theory of History’ developed by Arnold Toynbee’s research on: A Study of History, found that every civilization began as a small tribe or group of people that was suddenly faced with a challenge from the outside, usually another hostile group of people. In business, the equivalent is usually aggressive competition and unexpected reversals in the market place.

To respond effectively to this external threat, the leader had to immediately reorganize the tribe or group if it is to survive. If he makes the right decisions and takes the right actions, the tribe would rise to the challenge, defeat the enemy, and in the process, grow and become stronger. But in growing and becoming stronger, the tribe would trigger a confrontation with another, larger hostile force or tribe, thereby creating another challenge. The Chess-Stress-Mess-Cess syndrome

As long as the leader and the' tribe continued to rise to and overcome the inevitable challenges confronting them, they would continue to survive and grow. By continuing to grow through successfully rising to the unavoidable challenges, even a small tribe can eventually became a kingdom and then a large civilization, controlling vast lands, treasures, and people.

Much of what was discovered in the life cycle of those empires is applicable to the rise and fall of businesses, large and small, and to individuals. The lessons he discovered apply to your personal life as well.

For every King, there are 15 pieces, for without them the king is nowhere, and without that King there is no meaning to the 15 pieces. Now the perspective depends on what you want the king to be – A loser, because he is dependent for his security on 15 other pieces, or A winner, because without him, the fifteen pieces are just a piece of plastic or wood and there is no game.