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*Unique - Currently there are NO OTHER video game career guides with over 100 interviews from current, working game professionals. They are fully candid and give readers an unvarnished look inside the industry. The biggest secret? It's actually work.
*Written by Insiders - The authors are a professional, registered Career Counselor and two game writers who have worked on over 1000 game reviews, 70 strategy guides, and scripted storylines for over five different video games.
*Total Coverage - The authors will be interviewing over 100 professionals, all of them in different jobs within the video game industry. This will give readers a complete overview of what jobs there are in the industry and which ones may be suited to their talents. Rather than a vague list or a focus on programming and development, Paid to Play will blanket the various fields that are utilized in the world of video games.
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How to get a real Gamer's job!.......2007-05-28
This book gave me more insight about what the Gaming work world is like than all the other research I did my whole life.
This is an essential read for anyone who wants to design electronic games!
A great resource.......2007-02-09
As a graduate advisor for gaming students at Westwood College Online, I can not stress enough how important and worthwhile this book is. I recommend this book to every student that I work with because it is full of numerous "wake-up calls" and good ideas for breaking into the industry. Check this book out, it will greatly help you in your career search.
This fine guide needs to be on the shelves of any high school career library.......2007-02-09
This is no singular treatment of the industry: over a hundred video game industry pros were interviewed and over 50 careers are profiled for Paid to Play, an insider's survey of how to obtain real jobs in the gaming industry. From self-assessment exercises and sample resumes to insights on salary, educational requirements, training, and employers, the aspiring video gamer receives everything needed to pursue their game-playing as a career. This fine guide needs to be on the shelves of any high school career library or public library strong in business and career planning.
Diane C. Donovan
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Finaly the 100% blunt ugly truth about making video games!.......2006-11-30
I can just imagine gamers walking into Game Stop seeing this guide and getting big dreams of getting paid to play video games. This book crushes those dreams once and for all. The book tells the good and the bad of what it is like in the video game industry. And the reality is that making games isn't easy or always fun.
However if you feel like you can cut it and the warnings don't scare you the book does list practical no nonsense tips about how to approach breaking into the industry. That's where this book differs from other books about getting into video game making (Like the Game Career guide from Game Developer Magazine) this book gives specific tips relating to each sub-field of the video game industry it covers.
This book is not a technical guide however. I would have liked to see recommended reading for each job category. The book struck me as just a large compilation of opinions of video game industry members with some weird comments thrown in by the authors. The comments can be amusing but at times they where distracting and at worse condescending. As a programmer I was irked at the stereotyping of programmers and repeated usage of the words code monkey throughout the chapter "Technical Jobs". Overall enjoyed the book and found valuable info but I was expecting a little more professional presentation of the material so I gave it 4 stars instead of 5.
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Do you want to know what a job in this industry is really like-and do you want to know it quickly? WetFeet has the best research (and writing) team in the business. WetFeet guides are the industry standard--based on thousands of insider interviews and written with humor and skill, our materials are recognized by candidates and companies alike as the insider guide of choice. From 1988 to 1997, employment in the software industry more than tripled. As we become an increasingly wired world, opportunities should continue to explode. Even better, jobs in this industry come with great perks, fun and casual work cultures, and talented people. This industry includes everything from the games we play to the systems that automate our workplace environment. Software makes the Internet work, it enables you to hear the latest single on MP3, and it lets you collect e-mail from your cell phone. The range of software, too, gives eager programmers and marketing types the chance to redefine the tools we play with and work with. If you want to be on the cutting edge of creating the tools of the future, this industry's for you.
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This text shows prospective teachers practical ways to create classroom environments in which children become artists as they also become readers and writers. Based on the mind-expanding work of Howard Gardner and other teacher-researchers on the relationship between art and literacy, this book emphasizes the integration of all the arts into the elementary curriculum. It also addresses the immediate need of pre-service teachers for clear practical advice on how to set up effective art programs.
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A book for every elementary teacher.......2002-04-21
This is a huge compendium of information on teaching art. What makes this book special is that it shows how to integrate art into writing workshops. It also shows how to help children discuss a piece of artwork and make aesthetic judgments. There are extensive lists of children's literature about art and relevant websites. It also has lots of how-to information on working with tradition art materials such as paint, clay, and paper. It also discusses bookmaking, photography and video production.
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The Small Business Tax Advisor: Understanding the New Tax Law
Cliff Roberson
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Standards, Conformity Assessment, and Trade into the 21st Century
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There are countless books on the business shelf that focus on corporate culture, but their views are often too broad to address an organization's real needs. The subcultures within a company cannot be overlooked, and their disparities must be resolved for them to work together on a daily basis. For an organization to operate optimally, these subcultures must be aligned properly.
Aligning Organizational Subcultures for Competitive Advantage takes a hard look at the subcultures within modern corporations, and demonstrates how reconciling differences among them produces a corporate culture that give organizations a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Both a practical guide for managers and a valuable supplement for training in academic and organizational settings, this book focuses on the inner workings of organizational subcultures that can be aligned for purposes of achieving a mutually supportive corporate system.
Aligning Organizational Subcultures for Competitive Advantage brings together current research and examples of direct applications and provides a wealth of practical advice for the manager who seeks a clear, workable understanding of this important topic.
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Innovative Forms of Organizing: International Perspectives
Manufacturer: Sage Publications Ltd
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This book presents novel theoretical ideas and empirical findings where the fields of strategizing and organizing meet. At this boundary lie many of the most crucial theoretical and practical issues for management and managing.
Innovative Forms of Organizing, the eagerly awaited sequel to
The Innovating Organization (SAGE, 2000), draws upon the comprehensive data sets of the INFORM programme of research, to examine the development of innovative forms of organizing and company performance in organizations across Europe, Japan and the United States.
Innovative Forms of Organizing establishes and develops three strong themes: organizing and strategizing; complementarities, change and performance; and the management of dualities in the modern corporation. The book then discusses the implications of its presented ideas for strategizing/organizing in the 21st century firm and the challenges for management researchers of conducting large scale, international comparative research.
Innovative Forms of Organizing thereby illustrates 21st Century management research in 21st Century organizations across Europe, Japan and the USA.
This seminal international study will be a classic in the field for years to come for scholars and policy makers in academia, business and government who are interested in strategy, organization and international management.
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This digital document is a journal article from The Leadership Quarterly, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The primary purpose of this article is to integrate charismatic leadership theory with the upper echelons perspective in an attempt to better understand the leadership role of chief executive officers (CEOs). We report data from 69 U.S. and Canadian firms suggesting that CEO charismatic leadership measured at a point in time predicts subsequent firm performance. However, it is essentially unrelated to prior firm performance. Findings were weak with regard to an expected interaction between charisma and perceived environmental uncertainty in the prediction of performance. When intellectual stimulation was substituted for charisma, interaction results became somewhat stronger. As expected, charisma was related to both subjective and objective measures of strategic change, although we did not find an expected interaction between charisma and strategic change in the prediction of firm performance. Results are discussed in terms of the need for additional multidisciplinary research bridging micro- and macro-level conceptualizations of the role of leadership in the upper echelons of organizations.
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A corporate strategy for growth is delivered in spades........1997-12-02
"Director's Monthly," the official newsletter of The National Association of Corporate Directors, Vol. 21, No. 11, November 1997 says ... "CREATING AND SUSTAINING COMPANY GROWTH, by James B. Hangstefer (Waltham, MA: Burton-Merrill, 1997) promises a 'strategy for delivering concurrentgrowth in value to the key stakeholders of any company: customers, employees, and shareholders' --and delivers in spades. The author, who has run companies and served on a variety of company boards, offers a comprehensive set of managementand oversight tools organized around the concept of MOMENTUM. With practical tools such as a boards 'instrument panel,' Hangstefer lays out theresponsibilities of management versus the board, and shows how both can work together to achieve viable growth. Extras include a glossary and detailed case study."
A must read for any businessperson...a fresh perspective.......1997-10-20
As Dr. Rohsenow, Professor Emeritus, MIT said on book's jacket...if you're in business and have time to read only one book, make it this one. He couldn't have been more on target. Book is a 9 out of 10 on business-book scale and a 10 on capturing a central thesis we in business instinctively know, i.e., the importance momentum plays in a company. Content explores how to measure it, build it, implement strategies to maintanin it, all toward assuring consistent company growth. Book lays out in easy-to-understand terms the important non-financial standards to use as measures to go along with traditional financial standards to produce corporate growth consistently. This book is informative for the business executive who knows his company is doing well and is mandatory for the executive whose company is not doing as well as hoped for. Book shows how to go about bringing constructive change painlessly. A fresh and provocative read.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Business Strategies, published by Center for Business and Economic Research on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 7342 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: An interpretive perspective on the role of strategic control in triggering strategic change.
Author: Scott D. Julian
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Journal of Business Strategies (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2002
Publisher: Center for Business and Economic Research
Volume: 19
Issue: 2
Page: 141(19)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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Knowledge and Value: A New Perspective on Corporate Transformation
Solveig WikstrFom
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The management of strategic systems: The quality perspective
Douglas G Arnold
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A first-hand look at the Competitive Intelligence field through the eyes of experienced practitioners, drawn from a series of workshops sponsored by the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals. This work provides expert advice on establishing a successful CI operation. It also presents a section of 16 original commentaries written especially for this volume by leading CI experts, including Ben Gilad, Kirk Tyson, John Prescott, Jan Herring, Walter D. Barndt Jr., Bonnie Hohhof, and others.
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Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Innovation and Change
Henrich R. Greve
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The Behavioral Foundations of Strategic Management (Theories of Strategic Management)
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Revisiting Cyert and March's classic 1963 "Behavioral Theory of the Firm", Henrich Greve offers an intriguing analysis of how firms evolve in response to feedback about their own performance. Based on ideas from organizational theory and social psychology and research from many industries, it demonstrates that high-performing organizations quickly lower their rates of market entry, innovations and asset growth, but low-performing organizations only slowly increase those rates. The analysis outlines the consequences of this behavior for organizational survival and performance, and suggests ways to improve organizations with performance feedback.
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Revisiting Cyert and March's classic 1963 'Behavioral Theory of the Firm', Henrich Greve offers an intriguing analysis of how firms evolve in response to feedback about their own performance. Based on ideas from organizational theory, social psychology, and economics, he explains how managers set goals, evaluate performance, and determine strategic changes. Drawing on a range of recent studies, including the author's own analysis of the Japanese shipbuilding industry, he reports on how theory fits current evidence on organizational change of risk-taking, research and development expenses, innovativeness, investment in assets, and in market strategy. The findings suggest that high-performing organizations quickly reduce their rates of change, but low-performing organizations only slowly increase those rates. Analysis of performance feedback is an important new direction for research and this book provides valuable insights in how organizational learning interacts with other influences on organizational behaviour such as competitive rivalry and institutional influences.
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Perspectives on Strategic Change
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The theme of this book is the study of strategic change processes, with a focus on the 'European perspective' in studying strategic change. The 1980s ushered in an era of radical change for many organizations both in Europe and North America, and the topics have become dominant academic and policy issues of the 1990s. Using a variety of theoretical perspectives and drawing on a number of academic disciplines, the book presents some challenging ideas about the theory and practice of the study of strategic change. The theoretical and empirical contributions of the book are presented around three key areas - the internationalization processes of firms, the development of human resources, and public sector change. The chapters are written by prominent scholars from economics, organization theory, history, sociology, accounting, and business strategy. Enriching this diversity is a mixture of national intellectual traditions emanating from the Anglo-Saxon, French, German, Italian and Scandinavian countries.
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Interdisciplinary history explaining the rise of capitalism, sentimentalism, the marketplace, and the parlor.
This brilliant examination of the nineteenth-century challenges a central tenet of American history: that in the past men and women lived in separate spheres. Women, supposedly, lived lives focused around hearth and home; men focused on trade and commerce. Market Sentiments turns this argument on its head, showing how the market revolution was inextricably linked to sentimental beliefs. The invention of Valentine's Day and the rise of popular fashion magazines that used a sentimental language for attracting customers illustrate how the market and the parlor were closely intertwined. Through her ingenious use of sources—literary bestsellers, the decoration of Victorian parlors, hair jewelry, and fashion magazines—Elizabeth White Nelson shows that for nineteenth-century Americans hearth, home, and the pursuit of cash were joined together in one big, sentimental market. Long seen as a reaction to the expansion of the marketplace, White Nelson sees the rise of sentimentalism and the marketplace as fundamentally linked to each other; indeed, they fueled each other. Not only were sentimental objects offered for sale (brass candlesticks as spin-off products from Uncle Tom's Cabin), but sentimental language was also used to explain the momentous changes in American culture. She explores how emotional rhetoric could be quite economically pragmatic. 25 b/w illustrations.
Customer Reviews:
New interpretation of 19th-century America.......2004-12-10
A fascinating and provocative study--White takes what might appear to be mundane activities like Valentine's Day, charity work, and sentimental novels, and she explains how they were crucial to the way Americans thought about the market. She also explores how what might appear to be sentimental activities outside the markeplace were actually crucial to keeping the market running. Additionally, very well-written, great stories, and interesting insights into what makes Americans appear to hold such contradictary stances towards the crass world of the marketplace. (Also, ignore the blowhard's review below, because it seems he has an axe to grind.)
No Cents and Sensibility.......2004-09-29
Since the publication of Barbara Welter's 1966 essay, 'The Cult of True Womanhood,' scholars have tended to see white middle class women in nineteenth century America as far removed from the worlds of politics, money, and power. Rather, for Welter, they inhabited a world of piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness, confined spatially to the home and conceptually to a sentimental heart religion. Nelson's argument is that so far from being detached from the marketplace, as so many others have claimed, women and their sentimental discourses were deeply engaged with, and even at the vanguard of, the market revolution. In a series of brief chapters, Nelson looks at women authors and magazine editors, promoters of charity fairs, the business of valentine's day, conduct manuals, and other platforms through which women engaged in the market, using sentimental discourse to promote and (at the same time) reform the market. In many cases, her examples are not, to my mind, always completely convincing, but the argument is eminently sound and of far-reaching significance.
Interesting though the content may be, this is at the same time one of the most poorly designed and ineptly edited books I have ever seen. The endnotes are lumped into a *single* paragraph that runs across thirty solid pages, with no spacing between one note and the next. The font is tiny. The numbers for the notes are impossible to find in the solid clot of text. The documentation is seething with errors: spelling errors, punctuation errors, grammatical errors, factual errors, dating errors, pagination errors, and errors of consistency. There are missing letters, missing words, transposed sentences, and references to titles that only roughly correspond to the actual names of the books in question. And while the documentation is rendered in microscopic and excessively compressed print, the main text suffers from the opposite problem, with each line absurdly widely spaced, a visual effect that will remind most academic readers of the too-short student essay that has been typographically tweaked to look longer than it actually is. Many of the illustrations are darky and smudgy, and the book is in no way worth the exborbitant price asked.
Nelson, it would appear, is interested in the ways publishers manipulated sentiment to appease readers. Unfortunately, her own publisher (Smithsonian Press) apparently couldn't give a hoot if the book gives readers a warm fuzzy feeling or a powerful migraine. It gave me the migraine. A disappointment.
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Written in practical, easy-to-understand language.......2002-03-17
Profitable Seminars: 195 Tips On Designing, Marketing And Delivering The Goods is a no-nonsense, step-by-step, assembly of tips, tricks, and techniques to creating a successful seminar, selecting the best seminar curriculum materials, utilizing feedback, and much more. Written in practical, easy-to-understand language that communicates without chance of misunderstanding, Profitable Seminars is very highly recommended for anyone planning to host a seminar for the first, and has a wealth of useful information and ideas for even the more experienced seminar organizer and presenter.
Must reading for seminar leaders - experienced or new.......2002-01-31
I thought I knew (almost) everything about seminars, until I read Len Wood's book. I'm a seasoned seminar leader, in face-to-face and the virtual world, and I found this book exceptionally thought-provoking, motivating, and relevant to today's issues. Although the book is comprehensive in scope, it is easy to read because the writing style is friendly and the pages are visually appealing. I have especially enjoyed the quotations that start each chapter (especially chapters 4 and 10) - for me, they cut to the core in refocusing me on what it takes to be successful as a "seminar person" and also the things I need to do to prevent problems from occuring. If there is pressure on you to succeed with seminars, this is a must read. If you are just starting out in the field, purchasing this book and making it your friend could be the best investment you can make in your professional life.
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Advertising Organizations and Publications: A Resource Guide
John Philip Jones
Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc
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"John Philip Jones belongs to an elite group of intellectual adventurers searching for true meaning in an increasingly complex communication industry. Anyone involved in understanding how brands are born and nurtured should follow his work with keen interest."
—Andy Fenning, Executive Vice President,
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J. Walter Thompson, New York
"John Philip Jones is a name you know . . . . with opinions you value . . . . and updated and current information. Here is everything you need to know about advertising."
—Don E. Schultz, President,
Agora, Inc, Northwestern University
John Philip Jones, best-selling author of What’s In a Name? Advertising and the Concept of Brands and When Ads Work: New Proof that Advertising Triggers Sales, has compiled a comprehensive guide to the 77 key organizations and publications in the field of advertising and marketing communications.
Entries are arranged alphabetically for easy access and include a thorough description of each organization’s purpose, activity, and contact information. The collection is balanced among industry trade organizations (American Association of Advertising Agencies), research organizations (Marketing Science Institute), academic organizations (American Academy of Advertising), and pro-social organizations (Partnership for a Drug-Free America)., With 27 entries from outside of the United States, the collection is global in scope. Key publications such as AdWeek, Advertising Age, and AdMap are also included.
This resource guide is the fifth and final volume of a series edited by John Philip Jones that comprises an essential advertising library.
- How Advertising Works: The Role of Research
- The Advertising Business
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90-Minute Manager: Business Lessons from the Dugout
David Bolchover , and
Chris Brady
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What does it take to become a talent manager of premiership standard? Football managers lead high-talent teams under intensely stressful conditions, where every action is open to scrutiny. Just like today's business environment. Time to learn the lessons from the best and the worst at the ultimate talent-management game.
In 90-minute Manager, Bolchover and Brady analyse the characteristics of the very best of football managers, past and present, to uncover exactly what it is that makes them so exceptional and what modern business leaders can learn from their style and methodology. From Herbert Chapman's triumphs in the 1930s, through the highs of Don Revie, Jock Stein, Matt Busby and Bill Shankly, through to the modern day masters including Arsene Wenger, Gerard Houllier, Alex Ferguson, Martin O'Neill, Fabio Capello and Sven-Goran Eriksson.
Strengths and weaknesses, strategies and tactics are examined to answer classic modern management questions, such as: - do the best managers have to be both great strategists and inspirational motivators? - what makes top talent want to work for a particular manager? - how important is the 'right-hand' man and what qualities make the very best pairing? - should a team ever be built around a single outstanding individual? - what are the key personality characteristics that define a great talent manager? - is the ideal manager for a winning team a different man from that for a struggling team? Football truly is the management of independence, which is also the cornerstone of modern information-rich organizations. Managers everywhere can learn from football's best strategists, talent-managers and motivators as they steer the ultimate flexible teams to consistently successful performance. Whether you are a business person looking for improved performance, a passionate follower of the beautiful game, or both, you'll find The 90-minute Manager as insightful as it is entertaining.
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Concentration tendencies, globalization, increasing cost pressure and well-informed customers all make up the hard competition faced by today's businesses. The "right" products, a successful market image, a strong positioning between suppliers and customers, efficient logistics and optimum organization structures contribute to a company's survival. Achieving this goal requires flexible information and communication systems that are fully adaptable to the specific situation. Modern retail information systems are not bound by organization borders but support both business partner cooperation and electronic commerce. This book presents the architecture of retail information systems, as well as the functions of SAP Retail, and in so doing links modern retail management with the implementation strategies based on innovative software systems.
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COMPLEX AND NOT TOO CLEAR, BUT ONLY TITLE ON SUBJECT.......2005-01-25
As a user of SAP at a retail company, I was excited to see a title written on SAP specifically for retail. Retail is not one of the traditional industries focused on by SAP and its system shows a strong bias for manufacturing, so I was hoping this book would shed some light on the capabilities of the system that were being underappreciated at my company. Well, the result was that I was quite dissapointed after reading through it. First, the book seems to have been written in German and translated (poorly) to English, because the language is very choppy. Besides, there book lays out a grand vision of the architecture of the system without giving the user much idea on implementation or actual utility of functions. If you are ready to invest a few million on new developments, maybe this book is for you, but if you are looking for small improvements and ideas for medium-term development, this book takes too much of a birds-eye view to be useful.
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