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!

You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from subordinates, your supervisor, peers, and customers. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent Lineback reveal in Being the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to avoid that fate, by mastering three imperatives: · Manage yourself: Learn that management isn't about getting things done yourself. It's about accomplishing things through others. · Manage a network: Understand how power and influence work in your organization and build a network of mutually beneficial relationships to navigate your company's complex political environment. · Manage a team: Forge a high-performing "we" out of all the "I"s who report to you. Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide for not only first-time managers but all managers seeking to master the most daunting challenges of leadership.

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

If you are working in any organization with more than just a handful of people, you will be bound to encounter politics. The working world is a dangerous place, filled with backstabbing individuals who could care less about anyone or anything other than their own success up the corporate ladder. To navigate this tricky and dirty world of office politics, you must develop a strong game plan and be aware of risks. This guide outlines concisely the various ways you can not only navigate but truly thrive in this type of work environment.

Many people claim that office politics is a waste of time. That success comes from doing your job. That talent rises by itself. These people are, to put it gently, losers. If you want to succeed, if you want to grow your career beyond entry level, then you need to play the game of office politics. And you need to play it to win. Luckily, this book is here to help you out. There is no discussion of morality, no introspection as to whether office politics is really necessary in the modern workplace. Instead we focus on clear, rational advice so that you can achieve your goals via influencing others. This book is divided into multiple chapters, each of which covers a different aspect of developing and using your political skills. - Chapter 1 introduces the world of office politics and the associated requirements. - Chapter 2 discusses power in the workplace - sources of power, the distinction between formal and informal power, and the chapters you need to read based on your current situation. - Chapter 3 covers the essential skills which are necessary to support any attempt at persuading others or utilising office politics in your plans. - Chapter 4 is devoted to fundamentals and the way they relate to your current situation. It provides hints on decoding your own values, political skill and style, and the organisation which you are a part of. - Chapter 5 looks at initial impressions. It covers the importance of making a competent first impression, tailoring your style to match workplace reputation, and offers hints on fine-tuning external appearance towards professionalism. - Chapter 6 is about creating and maintaining a competent reputation. We look at baseline expectations, moving beyond these, and the surprising benefits you have from being good at meetings. - Chapter 7 involves the art of making and selling good decisions, an essential skill for those who wish to progress upwards in the company. - Chapter 8 is focused on the fundamentals of communication and their impact on office politics - from basic skills and selling ideas through to dealing with or using 'no' and holding tough conversations with others. - Chapter 9 is about managing upwards - to your manager and above. It includes typical manager requirements, dealing with new managers, and a short guide to detecting managerial insanity. - Chapter 10 is all about managing downwards - developing a leadership personality, making the most of your team, taking over a new team, and moving unwanted people on. - Chapter 11 looks at networks. It covers creating, maintaining, and tracking networks for professional development. - Chapter 12 is about influencing others, whether it be picking targets, identifying tradeable currencies, using a suitable strategy, or simply noting typical mistakes newcomers make. - Chapter 13 looks at negotiation. The approach outlined here is as applicable to formal negotiations as it is for quick back-and-forth discussions over a conspiratorial cup of coffee. - Chapter 14 is for when things are going wrong. It examines last-ditch methods for achieving success as well as effective approaches to cover your behind when they inevitably fail. - Chapter 15 is all about moving on. It covers the decision to move onwards, the art of negotiation for your new role, and a set of tell-tale signs that firings and lay-offs are coming in. - Finally Chapter 16 provides a summary of typical political shenanigans which you will encounter and (most likely) try to use on other colleagues. Ready to learn? Then read on.

`Many books on management are sanitized, cleanly technical accounts of the unreality of managerial life and work. Politics hardly feature. This book tells it like it is: it dishes the dirt, gets low-down, into the funky and fascinating politics of organizational life′ - Stewart Clegg, Aston Business School and University of Technology, Sydney Combining a practical and theoretical guide to the politics of organizational change, this book provides an exceptional resource to students of change management, and organizational behaviour. Buchanan and Badham show how the change agent who is not politically skilled will fail, and that it is necessary to be able and willing to intervene in the political processes of the organization. This revised edition includes a range of excellent new material and features, including: - a new chapter on gender in approaches to organization politics - a full range of teaching materials including case studies, incident reports, self-assessments, and more - Each chapter recommends a feature film (or DVD) to illustrate aspects of organization politics - fresh research evidence - recent literature on the nature of entrepreneurial politics; - a model of political expertise, and how that can be developed This lively and engaging book is key to MBA and other Masters degree candidates taking courses in change management, and organizational behaviour. It will also be valuable for practising managers on tailored executive programmes in organization politics.

Every organization has its share of political drama: Personalities clash. Agendas compete. Turf wars erupt. But you need to work productively with your colleagues-even the challenging ones-for the good of your organization and your career. This guide will teach you how to: Build relationships with difficult people, gain allies and increase your sphere of influence, wrangle resources, move up without alienating your colleagues, avoid power games and petty rivalries, and claim credit when it's due.