Comments on: In corporate 'Spy Game,' work equals play

The latest corporate team building exercise could have you re-enacting a scene from a famous spy flick--in public.

[Elzeal]

How to Win

or: How to keep your friggin' Job!

Anyone caught by this Corporate game/trap should know first off that this is not about Succeeding. It's about Keeping your Job.
DO NOT be primarily responsible for Succeeding in these quests, especially if your Direct Boss or his boss or any of their Darlings are 'questing' with you.
Being the One who Leads one of those 'Royals' to the Solution would be a good thing. But you're not that clever. You could get a promotion if you were, but better leave that to the Accomplished Brown-nosers.

Now don't sit there like a lump. That's a sure way to get fired, probably within three weeks after the exercise. You know the guy with that destiny, the fellow that eats another donut while the rest of the lunch crowd is in an animated conversation.

Be involved to some good degree, keep moving, be seen to some degree by at least one of the 'Royals', preferably providing the solution to some minor aspect of the main problem.

You don't want to be a Show-Off. Never make a 'Royal' look bad or feel bad. Solving a puzzle Right Before a 'Royal' seems ready to get it -- that's worse than suicide.

Those folks are So sensitive to ego-jabbing. They are always imagining what chatter may be flying at the water fountain. Getting shown-up by the same underling too often will make them irritable or worse.

Mediocre is the way to go, with a side order of somewhat-competant.

[Pop4]

"Creative Gamer"; caught with the last Krispy Kreme.

99' was an exciting year for me. The game was a "Power Point" presentation for Naumann Hobbs, Inland Hobbs, Power Kymatsu Rentals . This was my 'Intern Year' and down sizing was my inevitadlility; along with poor spelling.
However, I cleared three competitor's on my site-map before my assigned team manager's tallied my reports and took the plunge themselves.
The end result was a far cry in the other direction; for them not me. Little did I know. The presentation went as expected I guess.
I never renewed my second year contract; and the soon to be aquired Toyota Dealer I presumed became the mission statement for my successor.

Party on!

[Ipod Apple]

Mediocre is the way to go

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