Corporate Game

The corporate world is a complex game that must be mastered in order to achieve great success and rise up the organizational ladder. There are many rewards for the winners in this game-playing environment, and as with many things in life, the corporate world can be quite brutal for the losers in this competitive ecosystem of complicated relationships and diverse behaviors that must be effectively navigated in the course of playing the strategic game. Ergo, learn to play the game of office politics or suffer the unkind consequences of being destroyed on the corporate battlefield.

Hundreds of books have been written about the financial crisis that engulfed the world after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. But what if the bigger financial crisis is ahead of us, not behind us?As John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper deftly illustrate in this controversial audio book, the crisis was more than a half-century in the making. The Great Financial Crisis, however, was merely Act I.

In The Way of the Wall Street Warrior, 25-year veteran investment banker and finance professional, Dave Liu, delivers a humorous and irreverent insider's guide to thriving on Wall Street or Main Street. Liu offers hilarious and insightful advice on everything from landing an interview to self-promotion to getting paid.

Welcome to "The Consolidation Game," the comprehensive guide to corporate consolidation! This eBook encompasses everything you need to know about mergers and acquisitions in today's business world. Starting with the evolution of corporate consolidation, this guide takes you through all the nitty-gritty details of how businesses merge and acquire one another. You'll learn about the various types of corporate consolidation and the strategic considerations to take into account before diving headfirst into any M&A transactions. Investment bankers play a crucial role in corporate consolidation, ...

Innovation used to be seen as a game best left to entrepreneurs, but now a new breed of corporate managers is flipping this logic on its head. These Corporate Explorers have the insight, resilience, and discipline to overcome the obstacles and build new ventures from inside even the largest organizations. Corporate Explorer is a guidebook to the practices that enable these managers to go from idea into action. This actionable and proven framework explains how managers can become successful corporate innovators.

In dynamic, fiercely competitive markets you must have confidence in your business strategy, especially when the future of your company is at stake. Rather than make untested, unilateral decisions, war game strategies with your leadership team in a safe workshop environment. In Competitive Success: Building Winning Strategies with Corporate War Games, Arjan Singh, a top competitive intelligence (CI) expert consultant, shows you how to build winning strategies step-by-step.

In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom, a twenty something petite brunette from Loveland Colorado, ran the highest stakes, most exclusive poker game Hollywood had ever seen - she was its mistress, its lion tamer, its agent, and its oxygen. Everyone wanted in, few were invited to play. Hundreds of millions of dollars were won and lost at her table. Molly's game became the game for those in the know - celebrities, business moguls, and millionaires.

A Survival Guide For Navigating Power Dynamics, Stereotypes, and Systematic Racism in Corporate Spaces Being a Black woman in corporate America comes with microaggressions that feel macro, having your competence constantly questioned, and being forced to work twice as hard for half the recognition. Plus the rules are unwritten, the playing field is anything but level, and the goalposts move without warning. So if you’re feeling stuck, sidelined, or exhausted from trying to excel in spaces that weren’t built for you, it’s because you need more than just motivation to navigate the ...

In June 2007, the FBI informed the NBA that one of its referees, Tim Donaghy, was the subject of a probe into illegal gambling. Within months, the public knew the broad outlines of a scheme involving Donaghy betting on games he officiated with a coconspirator, longtime Donaghy acquaintance and professional gambler Jimmy "Baba" Battista. They were joined in the scandal by a mutual childhood friend, Tommy Martino. By November 2008, each man had pleaded guilty to charges relating to the conspiracy and was in federal prison.

Mteto Nyati knew years ago as a schoolboy in Mthatha, working behind the counter at his mother’s trading store, that he wanted to fix and build things. After completing his studies in Mechanical Engineering at Natal University, he turned down a Rhodes scholarship and headed for Johannesburg to take up a position at Afrox. He was the only black engineer and the sole advice he received from his superiors was ‘don’t mess up’. He didn’t. Today Nyati is one of South Africa’s top CEOs, having steered Microsoft South Africa and MTN South Africa out of troubled times.

The New Corporate DNA: Why Skills Matter More Than Titles offers a comprehensive exploration into the transformative shift from traditional role-based structures to a dynamic, skills-centered approach. As organizations across industries navigate rapid change, this book provides a roadmap for those who want to foster adaptability, innovation, and inclusivity in their workforce. It guides readers through the essential elements of creating a skills-based organization (SBO), from establishing frameworks for skills mapping and leveraging AI-driven talent analytics to implementing personalized ...

Discover the Untold Stories of Gaming’s Greatest Innovators! Step back in time and relive the golden age of video games with Pixel Pioneers, a comprehensive exploration of the companies that defined an era and revolutionized the gaming world. This book dives deep into the history of iconic developers like Acclaim Entertainment, Data East, Ocean Software, Midway Games, and LJN, revealing how they brought some of the most unforgettable games to life—and the challenges that ultimately led to their demise. Do you remember the adrenaline of Mortal Kombat, the high-flying dunks of NBA Jam, or...

Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet. Points, badges, and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. Game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools, and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion.

In the topsy-turvy world of tax avoidance, you can get richer by buying a yacht, the world's biggest exporter of coffee is Switzerland, and the Duke of Westminster pays less tax than you do. Written with sharp wit and over-brimming with inside secrets, the anonymous authorxshows us that not only does the global tax system encourage dubious practice which favours the rich, but that it was specifically founded with that in mind.