The most gloriously over-the-top HR battle in Grandomastery: your rival CEO just announced the annual team-building will be another yawn-inducing trust-fall weekend at a generic conference hotel. You have 12–18 minutes to hijack the all-hands meeting and passionately pitch an insanely unconventional, borderline-unhinged alternative (e.g., “three-day silent meditation in an abandoned nuclear cooling tower”, “urban exploration of active construction cranes at midnight”, “compan

The most visionary urban-nature fusion challenge in Grandomastery: Google Street View drops you in a completely random, real-world location (a forgotten alley in Tbilisi, a windswept Patagonian valley, a sleepy Japanese fishing village, an abandoned Detroit block). You instantly become the world’s most celebrated sustainable developer. In 12–18 minutes you must deliver a compelling spoken pitch (or written proposal) that: diagnoses the place’s hidden genius and current challe