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« iTMS Hits 1 Million Songs | Main | Unvarnished Feedback » August 10, 2004MBA Lunch Series: Robbie BachThe MBA lunches continued yesterday with Robbie Bach, Senior Vice President for the Games Division. (This means he's "Mr. Xbox.") Bach's been at Microsoft since 1988, coming here just after completing his MBA at Stanford. He's done a variety of stints inside the company, and has spent a fair amount of time representing Microsoft abroad. In addition to answering the barrage of Xbox-related questions on strategy, growth, partners, games and how to compete with Sony, Bach also dispensed a fair amount of career advice. He encouraged folks to think of their career from a "portfolio" standpoint - look at your skills, find gaps, and plug them. Over time, your portfolio of skills will become increasingly diversified and your job satisfaction - as well as your marketability - will rise. Bach also, unsurprisingly, suggested that Microsoft was an outstanding place to build your portfolio. =) (The best part of the day, however, was the tour of Microsoft's games usability lab ... and a half-hour shoot-'em-up session with the Halo 2 Beta. I haven't had that much fun since playing Marathon back at Pacific Rim Network in '95!) Posted by Gavin Shearer at August 10, 2004 8:25 AM. Posted to MSFT. CommentsPost a commentThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) |