biz.yahoo.com— Still, one VP speaks from personal experience: "I got the job as head of global marketing at KPMG in large part because top management knew me - and they knew me from the golf course," she says.
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Whether it's actually true or not, who knows, but it wouldn't be implausible. Well-played poker requires many of the same skills that you would use in business: Knowing your statistical odds and any particular point in the game, quickly calculating whether your current or potential financial investment is warranted by those odds, observing competitor's behavior, developing a useful model as a result and, perhaps above all, integrating all those factors dispassionately and then acting with confidence when it's warranted, or resigning without regrets.Chess has always has the mystique of "the smart-guy's game," but I think poker is more holistically complex, and as such certainly far more applicable to business.
There is a lot to be said about the Work/Network away from Work (that includes Golf, Drinks, meetings, Out-of-office events, even video gaming) that can make you or break you. Make your life easy - Take Golf lesson and start playing the game. Worst comes to worse you could use the exercise and fresh air. Otherwise - work on your Puckering and Glands because it is going to take a lot of kissing up and sucking up to get a head.
snowboochApr 23, 2007
phew...boy am i glad i spent yesterday on the course!
davidroolsApr 24, 2007
Because senior management isn't 12 years old?
pintomp3Apr 24, 2007
davidrools: sometimes i'm not so sure about that.
polygoneApr 24, 2007
Heh, I am not a 'business' guy, but golf is pretty fun.
karyykApr 24, 2007
Schmoozing and kissing ass will always get you farther than what you know. Haven't you ever noticed how many idiots there are in upper management?
bofh2Apr 24, 2007
Guess I am relegated to non VP jobs. I dislike golf and find it pretty boring to play. I do like driving the carts but so does everyone else...
lex10Apr 24, 2007
f**k Golf
jaredvolklApr 24, 2007
I have a dream that one day golf will become obsolete and instead everyone will play frisbee golf.
humptydankApr 24, 2007
Whether it's actually true or not, who knows, but it wouldn't be implausible. Well-played poker requires many of the same skills that you would use in business: Knowing your statistical odds and any particular point in the game, quickly calculating whether your current or potential financial investment is warranted by those odds, observing competitor's behavior, developing a useful model as a result and, perhaps above all, integrating all those factors dispassionately and then acting with confidence when it's warranted, or resigning without regrets.Chess has always has the mystique of "the smart-guy's game," but I think poker is more holistically complex, and as such certainly far more applicable to business.
owdenbowdenApr 24, 2007
There is a lot to be said about the Work/Network away from Work (that includes Golf, Drinks, meetings, Out-of-office events, even video gaming) that can make you or break you. Make your life easy - Take Golf lesson and start playing the game. Worst comes to worse you could use the exercise and fresh air. Otherwise - work on your Puckering and Glands because it is going to take a lot of kissing up and sucking up to get a head.
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