5 lessons of "Monopoly"

Since childhood, my favorite board game was the legendary "Monopoly", and in its most classic form. The box always was listed marking "teaches entrepreneurship," it was just an excuse to combine business with pleasure for me.

Years passed, I grew up and already he began to build a "monopoly", but recently I found myself in a country house, where adult women and men who do not know firsthand business principles, with the greatest enthusiasm for the game Kohn played the children's game, poker and throwing billiards. What adults are found in table game? What strategies lead to a victory not only in the fictional world, but also in real life? I have identified five main business ideas, which teaches us the game "Monopoly".

1. Time - your best ally or worst enemy

The first thing to understand newcomers "Monopoly": the faster running away forward, the more you have the streets and opportunities.

This is so because all the most successful acquisitions are usually made in the first laps. However, after the first round novices usually slow down the pace, and sometimes even prefer to "sit" in the games jail just to not get on the street rivals. As a result, they "do not pass the" Next "and do not receive 200 thousand," and sooner or later, lagging behind its competitors because of its slowness. So have achieved some success people are starting to slow down ambitions to swim with fat and stop cultivating.

When you decide to plan a new training or give up ambitious goals, remember that every problem is resolved, and any new experience - it's your the "Next". Powerful early start in life and career is very important, but it does not guarantee success in the future, if you do not save the fuse for the whole game.

Unfortunately, in life there is a single starting amount for all and everyone starts with their capital and knowledge assets, but the time - this is an asset that is fair to all. In the end, no matter how lucky you are at the start, more importantly, what will you do at the finish line.

2. Read the instructions and laws

Rules "Monopoly" is quite simple, but they take five turns from both sides of the booklet in small print. Business rules and laws in the real world takes much more paper, but also in the children's game, and the lives of their compliance is mandatory.

Moreover, if you know them, and easy to notice the subtleties, the luck is on your side: you avoid penalties, do not make unnecessary moves, in the end, you do not find yourself in jail. For example, only experts can elaborate rules to catch opponents in the bargaining.

As in life, you can try and manage to break the law, but whether this will lead strategy for victory without losing respect from others? It is much safer to know and abide by the laws, taking into account all the loopholes and exemptions, and they were always more than it seems.

3. Luck is only part of the success, and not the biggest

"Oh no! Again, you bought me the right street, the whole game is based only on luck! "- this can often be heard at the table, but also in the life of such statements can be heard at every step.

In fact, in cases where no luck so that you can not win, or at least stretch out long enough, just does not happen. It all depends on power to negotiate and properly dispose of their property.

Lucky for you or not, if your knowledge and skills are good enough, then you will spend a decent game, but the whiners nobody likes. Luck exists, but, as stated in the advertisement of alcoholic brand, good luck - it's attitude.

4. Negotiate and win, say nothing and lose everything

You have two streets yellow and your neighbor, one yellow, and the same situation with the orange? It is an opportunity to negotiate! You'd be surprised, but even in such a simple game choice between "agree" and "keep silent" majority of people will make in favor of the second.

Just so arranged the psychology of people, we generally do not like to negotiate. A good speaker will exchange the streets so that everyone will leave with a nose, but they will understand it only after he wins. However, remember that the ideal negotiator will do so, even if all but it lost as a result of the exchange, then no one will be offended.

win-win strategy, which is used by negotiators at the Harvard School, has long been a standard business.

Even if you can only win one, it's not a reason to cheat his partner on the game.

Moreover, lies, flattery, or other techniques below the belt during the game are clear and deal a blow to the reputation of which is difficult to soften even after completed the game.

If the dispute is about the methods of the negotiations can go on forever, it will agree with the fact all: if you remain silent, then for sure, sooner or later will lose and lose everything.

The only solution, as in life, - an ongoing dialogue, learn to negotiate and take into account the interests of both parties.

5. Learn how to finally be considered!

The cost of purchase of the street, the cost of buying houses and hotels, rental value - these are just a part of digits that must be compared in order to understand the nature of the asset. Of course, you can just play randomly and collect all the streets that just caught you, but if your opponents can countThen no luck will not help you.

In addition, the "Monopoly" contains several traps prestige. Beginners think that the streets dark blue category of the most prestigious, and therefore the most desirable from the start. However, they do not take into account the higher threshold entry into the business because the cost of the streets themselves and building houses for them, too, is the highest. In addition, only two streets, which means that all the less likely that they will get someone.

Many players take up a good half of the table to put all the acquired assets during the game, but as Only they have a street, they do not know where to get money for houses, without which impossible win. But the money in front of them: founded the unnecessary property and acquire appropriate. And in life: entrepreneurs often complain about the lack of start-up capital, have significant income from work, but taking it to a luxury instead development.

Even in the board game, which as a whole can learn from children of eight years, there is a set of financial indicators, which must be able to correctly apply. Needless to say that they live even more, but the most important thing - to be able to operate even the simplest. You must be able to distinguish the prestige of profitability and to learn proper use of their assets. This is even more true if the business you are not going.

In the end, someone won and someone lost, and there is already "Monopoly" is powerless. Perhaps the most bitter knowledge from childhood was defeated. I was very upset when losing in the competition, and always took it as a failure. At university, I began to try himself, opening a small start-ups, but they quickly sank.

In fact, every defeat was a great lesson for me, with much more valuable than a victory. And in the "Monopoly": each new game allows you to try out a new strategy in the event of defeat, you know exactly what you did wrong.

If you are lost and you do not like - just shuffle the cards, return the street to the bank and get to play again. Everything will turn out, because now you know how to win!