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Chicken Game

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Strategy

• Foundational Lexiconwho backs down first
• Executive Parlancebrinkmanship contest
• Scholarly Discoursemutual destruction avoidance
• Babel ZenithGame of Chicken

  Origin: Game Theory

Etymology & Meaning

A conflict where backing down is humiliating but not backing down is catastrophic.

In the Boardroom

Two companies threatening mutual patent lawsuits.

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