Games within Games: Relationships - Not Transactions

(Image by Rick Brown from Pixabay)

[revised: 2023-08-19 Saturday]

There are many complex layers in the "chess games" that I play.
[I tend to think of my use of the term "play" here, not in the traditional Western sense, but play as in the Japanese sense of "practice" - as in a Dojo]

Some pieces are beyond my reach.

To move those pieces, I may need to introduce a new piece on the board.

Through the indirect moves of that piece - it may reach a piece that I cannot touch.

In so doing, it moves the piece - or opens a line of attack that was previously closed.

Although the phrase "line of attack" is not meant in the sense of doing harm, taking, or diminishing another player. It is meant as a metaphor for how new relationships may be created, in how information may flow in new ways, in how threads of energy that connect the pieces on the board may shift in new ways - that may be advantageous to my own position - as well as to the players/pieces for whom I am seeking to help - by orchestrating movements.

There are games, within the games - within two dimensions, three dimensions, and even four dimensions.

This is the rich tapestry within which I see the business that I do.

Relationships - not transactions.

With each movement - seeking to create a value that is greater than the mere sum of the individual pieces.

This is my life's true work.


Updates:

2023-08-19 Saturday:
I thank David Reed, for bringing to my attention some of the possible similarities to what  I have written here, and the Cluetrain Manifest (circa 1999-2000), by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger. (re: "markets are conversations")