POKER MBA

This is first and foremost a business book. It's written by a professional poker player (Dinkin) and a professional writer (Gitomer) and it describes how the strategies and skills you need to win at poker are the same strategies and skills you need to succeed in business. The book covers strategic thinking and decision making, the ability to know what other people are thinking, negotiating skills, capacity to balance risk and reward, managing people, recovering from a loss, how to win with the cards you've got, among numerous other shared topics. The book is divided into three sections -- Strategy of the Game, Playing the Game and Starting Your Own Game--and a conclusion titled When the Game is Done. 266 pages, hardbound, 2002.