Discover how to become a better leader and beat office politics in this comprehensive guide! Do you want to uncover powerful, highly effective strategies for navigating the business world? Want to develop better relationships with your co-workers, handle negative work politics, and improve your leadership skills? Then this is the book for you! Every workplace has its fair share of work politics, and if you don't have the right knowledge then it can quickly become demotivating, draining, and make you feel like you're not succeeding. So how do you navigate the complex corporate world? And how do you deal with all the different people your career will throw at you? Inside this guide, you'll discover a breakdown of how you can drastically boost your leadership skills, overcome work politics, and develop better relationships with your boss and co-workers. With reference to career-stalling behaviors to avoid, how to deal with passive-aggressive and over-competitive co-workers, as well as how to avoid being set up to fail, this book is perfect for anyone looking to deal with office politics. Here's what you'll discover inside: A Breakdown of Office Politics Tips and Tricks For Dealing With a Difficult Boss Dealing With Undermining, Approval-Seeking, and Aggressive Co-Workers How to Identify (and Overcome) Passive-Aggressive Behavior Career-Stalling Mistakes To Avoid! Powerful Strategies For Maneuvering Work Politics Tips For Overcoming Competition at Work Signs You're Being Set Up To Fail - and How To Prevent This And Much More! With insightful advice, practical strategies, and a ton of tips and tricks, now you can arm yourself with the knowledge you need to overcome office politics, build your leadership skills, and succeed in the business world! Buy now to discover how to beat office politics today!

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A primer for a new generation of leaders based on the “Campaign Model” developed for Steve Jobs and Mike Murray at Apple Computer. The Leadership Campaign is a playbook for winning in the reality of today’s competitive global business environment. Each of the 10 steps it offers was learned on the most intensely competitive global battlefields. Thirty years ago, the authors were top-tier political consultants who could boast of a dozen presidential wins around the world. Candidates hired the authors’ company to apply to their political campaigns what the authors knew about business communication and marketing strategy. Then, in 1984, Steve Jobs asked them to build the “Campaign Model” for Apple, putting Jobs upfront as his company’s perennial candidate. This time, Jobs essentially asked the authors to apply what they knew about political campaigning to business. Continuously improved, the model has kept on working for their clients ever since, from Apple, Coca-Cola, and Citigroup to Verizon, Visa, and the Walt Disney Company. The Leadership Campaign will help you put these winning strategies to work for your company and your career. You will learn: Success-building communications skills used to train political leaders and CEOs around the world Proven strategies to take control of the competitive dialogue and never let go How to go for the win, the whole win, and nothing but the win for you and your company

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The Office Politics Handbook is for business executives, managers, consultants, lawyers, agents, editors, and anyone who wants to become more politically astute, more powerful, and more successful. This is not a book on political game playing; it is for people who hate power games but who know that politics takes place in every organization and want to make sure they wind up on top of the heap...not at the bottom of the barrel. This book will explain why people are political animals, and why they engage in power-seeking behavior. It will also discuss different instruments of power to help you understand the cultural and collective forces at work in human nature, and the occasionally aggressive characteristics of the political animal. The Office Politics Handbook will show you how to: Cultivate your political skill Exercise power beyond your place in the organizational chart Defend yourself against political attacks Know when to fight, when to retreat, and when to lead

Get Ahead, Gain Influence, Get What You Want Office politics are an unavoidable fact of life in every workplace. To accomplish your personal and business goals, you must learn to successfully play the political game in your organization. Whether you are a new player or a seasoned veteran, Secrets to Winning at Office Politics can help you increase your personal power without compromising your integrity or taking advantage of others. This smart, practical guide shows you how to stop wasting energy on things you can't change and start taking steps to get what you want. Written by an organizational psychologist and corporate consultant, Marie G. McIntyre's Secrets to Winning at Office Politics uses real-life examples of political winners and losers to illustrate the behaviors that contribute to success or failure at work. You will be shown techniques for managing your boss more effectively, improving your influence skills, changing the way you are perceived, and dealing with difficult people. Using these proven strategies for political success, you will then be able to create a Political Game Plan that outlines the steps necessary to accomplish your own individual goals.

What does it take to succeed in the corporate world? Is it by chance? Is it based on your IQ? What exactly does it take to climb the infamous corporate ladder? These questions are not easily answered because of the inherent politics in corporations. The bad news about corporate politics is that it is real and unavoidable. There are no written rules; hence, it is not widely understood. The good news is that corporate "political" skills are learned skills. This book reveals how several successful executives managed to excel when faced with difficult corporate challenges. This book takes the unique approach of explaining key success concepts through the use of actual case stories, vignettes and proverbs.You will learn what is referred to as the 8 C's for Corporate Success: - You will discern that being Competent and Credible are not enough. - Why having Core Values can save more than just your job. - How having Charisma and Champions can propel you into the fast lane. - How a Challenge can offer you new opportunities. - Why your Community plays such an important role in your advancement. - How your Communication skills can define your destiny. Individuals can renew, jump start or begin their career by using these leadership methods and tools. This book helps you to define who you are, where you are, where you want to go, and the path you need to get there. R. Siisi Adu-Gyamfi speaks regularly at conferences, universities and companies on the subject of global growth, value based marketing, strategies and negotiations. He has been a corporate officer at several Fortune 500 companies. He is co-author of "Inside the Mind: CMO Leadership Strategies." A mentor to several corporate aspirants and employees, he is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School.