“Imagine a commercial airline pilot trusted to navigate turbulent skies with no prior simulation training … why then are critical decisions in organisations often left to ‘theory’, ‘experience’, ‘intuition’, or ‘gut instinct’?" - de Suarez et al 2012.

Summary:

The Long Game Project aims to bolster organisational decision-making, team collaboration, and resilience. We're committed to a) creating tools and resources to streamline tabletop exercise accessibility; b) advising, offering thought leadership, and comprehensive consultation to organisations keen on tabletop exercises; c) fostering a culture of organisational gaming and building a community around tabletop games.

Imagine a universe where organisations are primed for the unforeseen, where decision-makers skillfully steer through crises to yield favourable outcomes amidst chaos thanks to routine simulated practice. The art of effective decision-making under uncertain conditions is a skill worth honing. Play now, so you're prepared later.

Our mission is to help organisations improve decision-making (IIDM), enhance team collaboration, and build resilience using tabletop exercises that are rules-light but experience heavy.

Rationale

The world is becoming increasingly complex and unpredictable, with organisations facing various challenges. Institutional decision-making in practice is often ill-equipped to handle such complexity, leading to sub-optimal decision quality and severe failure modes. 80,000 hours lists IIDM as one of the best ways to improve existing levers, interventions and practical suggestions for our long-term future and lists this as a neglected issue. While IIDM is a complex cause area, requiring some disentangling, there are existing levers, interventions and practical suggestions that are under-utilised in practice. The Long Game Project exists to bridge this gap by applying several levers to a diverse range of sectors, helping organisations adapt and thrive in an ever-changing landscape. Our toolkit of levers includes; tabletop exercises, role-playing, future simulations, facilitation, probabilistic thinking games, goal and value alignment, decision design and other methods that combine game design and ideas from behavioural economics, psychology, and organisational theory.

Our Aims:

1. Becoming the go-to source for tabletop scenario advice and tools, providing expert con...

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