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The Executive Presence Blog:

Office Politics: Why You Need to Play the Game

Learning How to Manage Office Politics Will Help You Get Along & Get Ahead

Mastering Office Politics Gets You Paid

Managing organizational politics is part and parcel of the ability to exert 360-degree influence in the workplace.

The "360" context here refers to the benefits of exerting this influence upward into more senior management, laterally to peers, and descending (in terms of an organization chart) to those you supervise or otherwise are exposed to in the course of navigating your responsibilities. And so, no matter what skills the job calls for, regardless of the breadth of one’s intra- and interpersonal awareness and sense of how one is perceived by one’s corporate comrades, the presence of organizational politics is always at the top of the list of variables you need to contend with to come out smelling like a bonus check.

 

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