Workplace Poker audiobook

Read This Book to Learn how to Pay More AttentionThe excellent poker players watch more than the cards. They are keenly aware of the expressions and other elements of their fellow players and use this information to their advantage. WORKPLACE POKER gives important information for every reader to learn the details of how to pay more attention in their work environment. The stories and information is fascinating to me. I learned a great deal listening to this book cover to cover. In fact, I saw such value in this book that I purchased the print book to read it and review this valuable material. I highly recommend this title.

This is a book I wish it was published long ago and I'd read it then. I can see why this book might be dismissed as facile, pedantic or calculating, riding on human psychology. But for everyday survival at any kind of workplace, and to achieve more than that, we need all of the 'intuitive' ideas discussed in the book. Here are a few reasons why I loved the book:1. The ideas are categorized across chapters and the ideas are elaborated with further sub-titling. The layout itself made it a breezy read. The mnemonics are pretty innovate: it is simple enough to remember the likes of Jane Goodall, Spock, Teflon Rhino, and Rubber Cat.2. The anecdotes felt so real and palpable. I don't care even if the Author made up some or all of it. I, myself, have experienced a few of those, and a variant of most. 3. Except the very first chapter, which deals about office politics aka Human interaction/dynamics, which I suck at, all the other chapters were very fast moving. For me, they embodied all the problems that I keep complaining about. 4. The first and second chapters, though, disillusioned me from thinking about co-workers in binary. 5. Toot-your-horn feels intuitive or redundant (on how you see it) but real-life corporate world is not interested in watching the productivity of an individual so much as his/her lack of perceived value. 6. Now, whenever I encounter a rude coworker or a sleazy teammate who steals other people's work, thanks to this book, I know how to deal with it and even take it as an opportunity for standing out.7. It beautifully explained how and why we lose our fire in our dream job.8. Though the characters in the anecdotes are mostly upper management, the situations apply to people at all stages of career.And much more! Despite the title of the book and the purported tone of the first 2 chapters, the book's overall message is heavily leaning on how to be a decent human being and not to be gullible at the same time. This covered a lot of things which were overlooked and elusive, and opened the mind's eye. This is not a self-help book but rather a reference or even a corporate career cookbook. I am really glad I stumbled onto this book, especially at a point when I was feeling my career is at crossroads. I already see tangible results from the new outlook gained from this book. And this helped to lay out the plans, short and long-term, to advance it. Overall, a practical book finely written for today’s corporate dynamics.

Whenever I'm asked at interviews who was my favourite manager, I always look back to one of my first managers who I will probably always look up to and respect. He had this way about him where he didn't just do a fantastic job but he had this amazing ability to navigate the work place politics, analyse precisely what was going on and how we should play things.I was so amazed at this magical ability, I looked to emulate in any way possible but had no idea where to begin. I looked into his career history and saw his sales experience. I would read everything I could on sales and go on sales training, not that I was pursuing a career in sales but whether in what was taught revealed his secrets... It didn't.It was only when I read this book that I began to understand his secrets! This book reveals how to get the edge in the workplace, develop your awareness skills and ultimately hell your career. Workplace Poker will help to build your corporate awareness to not only survive office politics but to develop you as a person. Reading it made me feel like I had tapped into my managers brain and learnt his superpower.Of all the career advice books I have read. This one is probably the most useful by far in terms of practical advice. Not just the standard have goals, have a CV etc but stuff that you can use on a daily basis. Well worth a read!

Don't let the title throw you, this is about presenting your best self in the workplace. I'm reading books like this now because I'm realizing the small things I could have done along my career that would have helped, such as self-promotion, which Rust talks about. I was never ambitious, but now I'm looking at the next five years and I don't want to be pushing 50 and in the same place, so I'm becoming more ambitious inevitably. I'm one who had never tooted my own horn, but that is changing. Rust also talks about different workplace cultures and fitting in, gives many examples of workers having problems/challenges and how they fixed it or not.

Great book with lot of insights. 5 stars.I found this book through Google search when looking for books similar to 48 Laws of Power, and I am so glad to have found this. This book is a gem particularly for those who are in middle management. It has so many practical insights - how to be "teflon rhino", how to build career performance portfolio, white-boarding, how to respond in a crisis, etc. Along-with select other books, this book has been a great value-add for me and would help me make meaningful progress in workplace & in life. 5 stars.

I'd like to give this a 4.5, but that's not an option. It slogged down a bit for me in the section on taking care of yourself physically for the good of your career - having enough energy, making a good impression, and all that, but a lot of people do need to hear that. He also contradicted himself sometimes, but I enjoyed the real-life stories and the humor. All-around excellent advice, and I'll be following his blog.

This is the book I've been missing my whole life - how to do well at work in all aspects other than core responsibilities. Self-promotion? Being observant? Working well with others? Taking care of opportunities? Overcoming adversity? The book covers all this, and more. Very well-written and enthralling.

Some decent career advice

nice book for beginners/mid level position careers apart from the stories of people, there are couple of principles

Good advice and not as repetitive and rah rah as some self help books.

A must read along with Cal Newport's book.. "So Good They Can't Ignore You".. Its a book that emphasizes its always better to be in a position of strength than a position of weakness.