Office Politics

Seizing Power Wielding Clout

Marilyn Moats Kennedy

Publisher: Warner / Grand Central Publishing / Hachette, 1980, 299 pages

ISBN: 0-446-35060-5

Keywords: Management

Last modified: July 8, 2021, 10:31 p.m.

75% of all office firings are political executions!

To survive you must understand office politics

Perhaps the best-kept secret in the working world is that office politics — boardroom politics, cubicle politics, typing pool politics — affects everyone because it's the way to get things done. Here, at last, is a book that tells you the hard facts about how it works and how it can work for you. Office Politics show you:

  • Find where the real power is — and use it.
  • Understand — and harvest — the grapevine.
  • Protect your job by knowing your enemies and retaliation devices.
  • Make informed career choices and plan strategy that takes you where you ought to be.
  • Campaign for promotion
  • Job hunt intelligently
  1. Working Myths — or
    Why Horation Alger Was Wrong
  2. Tools of Political Analysis — or
    What's the Score?
  3. Setting Objectives and Goals — or
    What's It All Worth?
  4. Strategy Planning — or
    Machiavelli Was Right
  5. The Employee as Victim — or
    Is It My Breath?
  6. Changing Jobs — or
    When Enough is Enough
  7. The Politics of Mentoring — or
    Searching for the Wizard of Oz
  8. Extraordinary Politics — or
    Out of Sorts in the Office
  9. The Nature of Nonprofits — or
    Doing Good Can Be Disastrous
  10. Managing Organizational Politics — or
    Up But Not Out

Reviews

Office Politics

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Bad ** (2 out of 10)

Last modified: March 28, 2011, 12:12 p.m.

If you read this book, you're truly desperate.

Unfortunately, it wont help you a bit…

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