Business Development is Similar to Chess

List of the qualities found in top chess players from Chess News.  Some of the qualities also apply to business development.

1. Avoid errors
2. Play relatively quickly
3. See complexity when others assume simplicity
4. Develop exquisite timing for when to change the nature of the position
5. Navigate towards positions where there are no obvious moves
6. Believe is your opponent's greater and ultimate fallibility
7. Keep going relentlessly
8. Be ever ready to pounce
9. Kill them without mercy
10. Smile to the cameras