Our workplace has become a playing field of moves and maneuvers, roles and positions all wrapped in sports lingo touting teamwork, coaches, and goals. The role you play has certain rules attached, with specific objectives, and measures of whether you're succeeding or not. The object is to win, because success is about winning. For starters, you need to learn how the game was supposed to be played. Then you need to modify the rules to fit the realities of working today.
Contemporary careers are fluid, evolving, ever-changing.
Career success is a moving target. Quite simply, those who keep up with the pace win, and those who don't lose. Early twentieth-century, small town, rural America was structured much like baseball, with clear rules of play, opportunities for individual achievement and displays of traditional American values. The typical baseball hero was depicted as the All-American hometown kid. Football depicts the span of time from early 20th century industrialism up through the postwar corporate society.