Must I play golf to get ahead?

“Women – or men, for that matter – who are not golfing are choosing to neglect one of the most powerful business and career-development tools there is,” declares Hilary Bruggen.

Bruggen may be a tiny bit biased: A former head of global marketing for KPMG, she quit that job to start and run Strelmark, a Washington, D.C., firm that conducts corporate golf-etiquette workshops for companies like Microsoft (Bill Gates is an avid golfer), Deloitte & Touche, Wachovia, and Smith Barney Citigroup.

Still, Bruggen speaks from personal experience: “I got the job as head of global marketing at KPMG in large part because top management knew me – and they knew me from the golf course,” she says.

Read the article on CNN Money.




Similar Posts:

Tweet This Post
Humor, Marketing & Sale, Strategies & Execution

If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.

blog comments powered by Disqus