Word: gamesman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gamesman has already been placed on many executive "must" reading lists. Among the businessmen who have already read it, one finds it an interesting contribution to management lore, another calls it "outrageous." A third cautions that junior executives cannot learn to become gamesmen by reading the book: the skills and attitudes are instinctive, "not like learning geometry." But Maccoby did not intend his work as instruction, only as description. In that capacity, it should fuel cocktail-party and water-cooler discussion for months, as workers try to classify their bosses-and themselves-according to Maccoby's types...