When everything matters, nothing does.
A simulation that surfaces the tension between competing priorities, and forces your team to decide what winning actually looks like.
What You'll See (and Feel)
Creative Vision
Teams choose a script and align on their vision. Confidence is high. Everyone thinks they know what winning looks like.
Silent Auctions
Blind bidding for directors, cast, and marketing. Unlike a live auction, you don’t see what others bid. Overspending happens invisibly. The tension between ambition and discipline plays out in real time.
The Trade-Off Crunch
Budget runs thin. Do you invest in box office performance, cultural impact, or industry reputation? Trying to win on all three dilutes everything. This is where teams discover what they actually value.
Curveballs & Pre-Screening
Production disruptions force reassessment. The pre-screening gamble: risk a test audience or go straight to market? Reveals risk appetite and adaptability.
Multi-Dimensional Scoring & Debrief
Results come in across three dimensions. Some teams won commercially but lost on culture. Others built something meaningful but went broke. The debrief explores what “winning” actually meant to each team.
Who This Is For
For teams that know what they should do but can’t agree on what matters most.
- Your team is pulled in too many directions and can’t prioritise
- There’s tension between short-term profit and long-term purpose
- Strategic ambiguity is slowing decisions
- Your creative or professional services team needs to align on what success actually means
- You want to expose how your team handles trade-offs, not just tasks
What It Reveals
Navigating ambiguity
How your team operates when there’s no single right answer and multiple paths forward. Most leadership environments reward certainty. This simulation rewards adaptability.
True priorities under pressure
The real values that surface when trade-offs are forced and resources are finite. Teams discover what they actually optimise for when they can’t optimise for everything.
Decision-making dynamics
Whether decisions happen by consensus, by default, or by the loudest voice in the room. The simulation makes invisible group dynamics impossible to ignore.
Competing definitions of success
How different ideas of “winning” create friction, misalignment, and missed opportunities. Often the biggest insight is that the team has never agreed on what success actually means.
Strategy vs. attachment
Where rational strategy gives way to emotional investment and sunk-cost thinking. The simulation reveals how quickly teams abandon their strategy to protect decisions they’ve already made.
What People Say
“The debrief was the most honest conversation our leadership team has had in years. We finally talked about what we actually value, not just what’s in the strategy deck.”
“Six months later, people still reference the simulation in meetings. It created a shared language around how we make decisions under pressure.”
Logistics
Duration
2.5–3 hours including debrief
Format
In-person preferred, virtual possible
Group Size
6–30 people
Energy
High energy, competitive, strategic
Includes facilitation, debrief session, and a reflection booklet for every participant.
Pricing
$3,500
Investment starts from $3,500 for groups up to 30. Travel on top.
For a group of 20, that’s under $175 per head. For 30, under $120. Less than most team lunches.
Ready to see your team in action?
A quick call is all it takes to work out which simulation fits your team and your goals.
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