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How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
by Garry Kasparov
from Bloomsbury USA

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Insightful
  Part motivational pep talk, part memoir, and part chess instruction, How Life Imitates Chess shares insights accumulated through a lifetime on professional chess's world stage by the most accomplished player the game has ever known. Self-awareness is the main message, and Kasparov has a gift for making the steps to achieving it plain, if not easy. His points are well-illustrated by anecdotes from his chess and political careers as well as historic examples from the worlds of business, politics, sports, art,... more info

• Inspiring
  you can see how someone climb the life mountain,and still there is enough to go,how we can learn from the past and correct the way during the life,to not be dogmatist.

• Un libro profundo más allá del tablero de ajedrez...
  Garry kasparov ha escrito un libro profundo en el que intenta establecer analogías entre el ajedrez y la vida cotidiana. Para los lectores que no están familiarizados con el juego del ajedrez este no es ningún problema, ya que no analiza partidas o posiciones en el tablero. Más bien, explica sus experiencias que vivió como niño, joven y adulto en las preparaciones y competiciones en el deporte-ciencia denominado ajedrez. Al mismo tiempo brinda interesantes... more info

• College textbook material
  I believe this would make an excellent college textbook, so if you are a college student, or new to the corporate world, then I highly recommend this book -- particularly if you are in sales or marketing.
  If, however, you have been in sales or marketing for a number of years, then you will find the messages in this book to be repetitive of what we learned in the 80s and 90s.
  This is actually not a criticism of the work for the advice is solid and true to the real world. It's simply repetitious of... more info

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