The Great Game of Networking will help anyone from any experience level be more confident, more effective, more professional, and more successful at networking. As implied by the title, the author believes networking, and business in general, should be fun, and that what keeps it from being fun is often a lack of the skills needed to "play" at a professional level. It approaches what many consider a very challenging undertaking with a set of quickly grasped, easily applied techniques that can provide immediate returns. This straightforward book can be read and implemented in the same day! The author is an accomplished networking professional whose eagerness to share what he has learned comes through in a conversational, coaching tone. The Great Game of Networking provides strategies for both the novice getting started and an advanced section to help those who have been networking for any amount of time leverage their efforts. Guaranteed!

The Great Game in West Asia examines the strategic competition between Iran and Turkey for power and influence in the South Caucasus. As much of the world's attention has been diverted to conflicts and flashpoints near and far, a new great game has been unravelling between Iran and Turkey in the South Caucasus.

Energy spurs social and economic development and has multiple effects on the ecological and social environment of societies. Energy access for socially equitable development, energy security for economic growth, and the mitigation of climate change all represent issues of sustainable development. Energy markets, however, fail to set incentives right. Based on research in five sustainable energy-related global policy networks and on conducted expert interviews, this study analyzes the effectiveness of global policy networks and aims to identify instruments of effective global environmental governance. In conclusion, the study will draft a strategy for network governance how to reconcile long-term and short-term interests by creating integrative sustainable business opportunities. This strategy has to foster collaboration in partnerships and self-organizing dynamics among the network partners.

Washington, D.C. The one city that affects all our lives. The one city where the game has only one name: Power. Hedrick Smith, the Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, takes us inside the beltway to show who wields the most power—and for what ends. The Power Game explains how some members of Congress have built personal fortunes on PAC money, how Michael Deaver was just the tip of the influence-peddling iceberg, how “dissidents” in the Pentagon work to keep the generals honest, how insiders and “leakers” use the Times and The Washington Post and their personal bulletin boards. Congressional staffers more powerful than their bosses, media advisors more powerful than the media, money that not only talks but intimidated and threatens. That’s Washington. That’s The Power Game. Praise for Power Game “The Power Game may be the most sweeping and in many ways the most impressive portrait of the culture of the federal government to appear in a single work in many decades. . . . Knowledgeable and informative.”—The New York Times Book Review “There are oodles of good yarns in this book about the nature of power and the eccentricities that accompany it. . . . Delightfully fresh . . . [Hedrick] Smith is a superb writer.”—The Washington Post “Not only the inside stuff, but the insightful stuff—an original view of the power playing.”—William Safire

The Giants and Patriots are about to battle. Ten days before kickoff, one fan plans to watch the big game on TV, until a casual dinner conversation changes everything. Making The Big Game traces an unexpected and modern journey through the quirks of the Super Bowl Lottery, internet frauds, high-tech scalpers, and fan legacies. Jeffrey Fekete wraps a true story of life, work, and relationships around a frantic and often humorous countdown to game day and his pursuit of the ultimate game ticket.