Step by Step Success - Business Wisdom and Life Philosophy on the Chessboard

Author: Bruce Pandolfini
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Move with grace and elegance like flowing clouds, yet with fierce techniques yet with its own set of rules. International chess is such a tempting game: During World War II, the British intelligence agency required one condition for recruiting telegraph operators: proficiency in international chess, demonstrating its importance in analyzing people, reasoning, and planning. Renowned for coaching chess master Josh Waitzkin, Bruce Pandolfini, advisor to Fortune 500 companies, shares the business wisdom and life philosophy on the chessboard, distilling years of experience guiding chess games and the business world into 15 principles: Calm people can laugh last; smart people sacrifice the opponent's pieces; aim high to get average, aim average to get low; when you realize you've gone too far, it's already too late.