Your Career Game
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Your Career Game

How Game Theory Can Help You Achieve Your Professional Goals

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Your Career Game

How Game Theory Can Help You Achieve Your Professional Goals

About this book

Your Career Game demonstrates how game theory can help readers to understand and proactively take charge of their career strategy. Authors Nathan Bennett and Stephen A. Miles teach readers to manage the interdependencies and interconnectedness among coworkers, managers, and others in a manner that supports personal career efforts. Then, they show how readers can become better players. The key to learning how to play the career game is "career agility"—in short, nimble individuals are better game players.

Thois book includes conversations with a wide range of successful professionals such as Ursula Burns (Xerox), Stephen Elop (Microsoft), Marius Kloppers (BHP Billiton), Ken Frazier (Merck), and Liz McCartney (The St. Bernard Project), and discusses how their career moves demonstrate elements of a game theory approach to career management. This is a must-read strategic guide for anyone who seeks to advance their career and navigate today's job market.

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Information

Publisher
Stanford Business Books
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780804778725, 9780804756280
eBook ISBN
9780804771351
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business
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success. 
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made 
moves 
during 
his 
graduate 
program 
that 
helped 
his 
résumé 
tell 
a 
more 
compelling 
story 
and, 
in 
doing 
so, 
negated 
speciïŹc 
criticisms 
that 
he 
had 
received 
about 
his 
experience. 
In 
deciding 
between 
Bain 
& 
Company 
and 
McKinsey, 
he 
carefully 
weighed 
what 
each 
would 
signal 
about 
him—particularly 
in 
terms 
of 
his 
experience—in 
competi-
tion 
for 
future 
opportunities.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1. Your Career as a Game
  5. Chapter 2. Understanding Fundamental Game Theory Concepts
  6. Chapter 3. What You Need to Know to Play
  7. Chapter 4. Moves in the Career Game
  8. Chapter 5. As You Move On: Building the Foundation for Your Successor
  9. Chapter 6. Career Agility
  10. Conclusion
  11. Index