BE A MAESTRO OF CORPORATE POLITICS Politics and organisations seem to go hand in hand – work in an organisation, handle the politics. And each night worry about it and about getting ahead. Reality check: the higher you go, the more serious the political game. There is logic to this – people have different agendas, corporate and personal, noble and ignoble and these will inevitably conflict with those of other people. So politics is part of the reality of working in organisations, and is not going away. The only issue is whether you have the capacity to deal with it and whether the organisation is pathologically political or acceptably political. Politics is the art of getting things done and reaping the benefits; it provides the power to get things done against opposition. Here’s the good news – being politically smart is not a trait; rather it is a skill that can be mastered. You probably already have a natural political style, forged in the family and at school which you put into pra
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