> on a given turn in the game of Monopoly, you roll the dice, move your token, buy and sell properties . . . and nothing else.
Er . . . that's not how I've ever played Monopoly. In my family, those things are just the opening moves. The real action comes from the constant deal making. Trading properties, negotiating for free rent, paying people to not trade properties. You need to know what your stuff and their stuff is worh. You want to know how to drive a hard bargain without making the other person so mad they won't deal with you again. You need to know how to win, but not reveal too early that you're winning so people don't stop dealing with you.
Monopoly is a game of politics. And not like Settlers of Catan, where who you can make a deal with and what you can trade is constrained. In Monopoly, you can make a deal about anything.
If you don't think a career in a big corporation is like a game of Monopoly, you're either playing Monopoly wrong or managing your career wrong. Possibly both.
(I definitely agree about not accepting the presented rules, but I wouldn't say ignore them completely. Understand the local customs and rituals and their benefits and costs and who cares about them and why. If all you ever do is upset applecarts, you're like the guy playing monopoly who says "screw you guys" to the other players and never makes deals. He loses.)
I come from a long line of ruthlessly cutthroat Monopoly players. If you get into a game with my mom and the aunts on my Mom's side . . . man, you're lucky if there's not blood on the floor when you're done ;)
No choices in Chutes and Ladders (or Candyland). "Sorry" is probably closest; rigidly limited choices and a certain amount of backstabbing....
But I'd also observe that the way Monopoly is described in the post is how a lot of people play it. In my experience, I generally manage to make one killer deal, people realize their mistake several turns later, and what inevitably happens is that the response is to never make a deal with me again. Yes, not the spirit of the game, but I am not surrounded by gaming nerds in meatspace. (And my response is that I refuse to play Monopoly. Which isn't as harsh as it sounds as we have a wide variety of other good games, less prone to such terrible gaming by a nerd.)
Er . . . that's not how I've ever played Monopoly. In my family, those things are just the opening moves. The real action comes from the constant deal making. Trading properties, negotiating for free rent, paying people to not trade properties. You need to know what your stuff and their stuff is worh. You want to know how to drive a hard bargain without making the other person so mad they won't deal with you again. You need to know how to win, but not reveal too early that you're winning so people don't stop dealing with you.
Monopoly is a game of politics. And not like Settlers of Catan, where who you can make a deal with and what you can trade is constrained. In Monopoly, you can make a deal about anything.
If you don't think a career in a big corporation is like a game of Monopoly, you're either playing Monopoly wrong or managing your career wrong. Possibly both.
(I definitely agree about not accepting the presented rules, but I wouldn't say ignore them completely. Understand the local customs and rituals and their benefits and costs and who cares about them and why. If all you ever do is upset applecarts, you're like the guy playing monopoly who says "screw you guys" to the other players and never makes deals. He loses.)