Mastering the Corporate Chess Game

"Every work organization - a consulting firm, a law firm, a manufacturer, financial services, a nonprofit, a real estate practice -- builds an internal culture among its staff. The culture usually runs on a set of unwritten norms. While business schools and management programs can provide excellent training in finance, marketing, strategy, and research methods, they rarely teach their students how to discern the unwritten rules so important to their career success. Drawing upon the life experiences of successful Georgetown alumni and others, this book provides a set of powerful personal stories of overcoming that deficit. Each chapter author reflects on their early struggles to succeed, beginning with their particular puzzles or obstacles and culminating in a solution or a pivot--sometimes several in one career. Despite not knowing the norms, not knowing how to seek guidance, and not being prepared for frustration, each of these successful women and men reveal how they proactively figured out the rules of their own "corporate chess game," and how that made all the difference in their careers"-- Provided by publisher.