Excerpt from Career Games, the Formal, Contextual, and Operational Rules of PlayTake, for instance, the somewhat beleaguered but still widely proclaimed standard operating procedure in many organiza tions to set mandatory retirement dates for employees. Yet, another standard operating procedure exists to overlook such dates when a person subject to them is a prestigious figure within the organization, a troublemaker who might question the legality of such a rule in the courts, or an individual thought to be irreplaceable at the moment. While the rule may well suggest what is to be considered proper conduct in the organization, such conduct is not always smart given the particular situation. The archtype dope is often the one who rather mindlessly insists on playing by the rules without attempting to see them in light of the surrounding conditions. Pity the poor underling who fails in an attempt to oust the Chief Executive Officer of a firm on the basis of a so-called mandatory retirement date.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.