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Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win?
by George Stalk Jr. and Rob Lachenauer · 2004
George Stalk Jr. and Rob Lachenauer's competitive-strategy book on playing to win decisively rather than incrementally.
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Documented citation: Founders Podcast #384 describes Hardball as the book Ken Griffin recommends after transcribing a Yale talk by Griffin.
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Founders Podcast · 2025-04-01 · accessed 2026-06-23
Apple Podcasts and the Founders RSS metadata describe episode #384 as based on a transcribed Yale talk by Ken Griffin and state that the host read Hardball as the book Ken recommends.
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