Office Politics

Seizing Power Wielding Clout

Marilyn Moats Kennedy

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

ISBN: 0-446-35060-5

Synopsis:

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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

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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