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Why Playing The Long Game Can Be Your Competitive Advantage

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2024-06-23 00:30:02

BRYSON CITY, NC - JUNE 1991: Retired Seaboard Air Line Railroad conductor Allen Watson checks the ... [+] time on his Hamilton watch, a favorite among railroad men. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

Playing the long game means paying a small price today to make tomorrow’s tomorrow simpler. If you can do this long enough to get results, it will feed on itself.

What starts small can turn into something more. The more you play the long game, the easier it is to do, and the greater the rewards.

In all areas of creating success, you need to use the long game approach. Your company, your personal life and your team all need to be seen as long-term investments.

In this post, I’m going to break down how exactly “playing the long game” can lead to big time wins down the road—in life and in sales.

Playing the short game means putting off anything that appears difficult, in order to do something that’s a lot simpler, and usually offers instant and noticeable results.