Introduction -- Welcome to the infinite game -- Part 1. Society and the infinite game: Overarching principles: Continuing the play versus winning -- Infinite and finite values -- The difference between finite games that are inside or outside the infinite game -- People: Invitation versus selection -- People versus allies, pawns, spectators or competitors -- Open-ended versus restricted expression -- Connection versus guarded emotions -- Freedom versus obligation -- Setting: A network versus discrete entities -- Diversity versus sameness -- Awe versus control -- Knowledge: Seeking information versus claiming knowledge -- Understanding versus training -- Time: Looking to the future versus replicating the past -- Changing the rules versus maintaining the rules -- Part 2. The infinite player: Hold finite games lightly -- Seek and express authenticity -- Strive for radical cooperation -- Beware the trickster -- Reflect and learn -- Postscript: Welcome to the infinite game -- Author's note -- Appendix -- Infinite game workshop outline.
Summary:
"Is life really a finite game - a game of selection and rules, winners and losers, players and spectators? What if we are all part of a different type of game entirely - a game in which playing matters more than winning, a game that anyone can join at any time, a game in which rules evolve as new players turn up - an infinite game?"--Publisher information.
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