It’s well known that business tends to slow down during the summer months. Wall Street traditionally experiences slow trading days in the summer (though maybe not this year) for the simple reason that traders and brokers are all out in the Hamptons enjoying long weekends.
Perhaps you’re in an office where the bosses are starting to […]
Entries Tagged as 'Office Politcs'
Career Hack- Use The Summer Months To Climb The Career Ladder
June 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: Getting Ahead · Office Politcs
5 Career Lessons of the Clinton/Obama Race
June 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Just a quick note before I get the comments: there’s no Obama or Hillary bias intended here. I’ve not been a supporter of either candidate.
1) Experience is not always a trump card. There are times when all the experience in the world is not what people are looking for. Because…
2) Sometimes people are looking for […]
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The True Office Power Brokers
May 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
1) The Administrative Assistant-
On the one hand, the administrative assistants and secretaries keep the world turning. They route the communications, schedule the workday, make the meetings happen, facilitate the introductions and most importantly, manage your manager. You always want to be deferential to their power to keep you in the loop.
But it is their relationship […]
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How To Kiss Butt For Fun And Profit
March 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I offer up this post, not as an endorsement of kissing butt, but as an informational essay.
Let’s face it… we all have negative feelings about ass kissers. And yet, we all know that, as a strategy for getting ahead in life, kissing butt can’t be beat. People wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work.
I’m in […]
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7 Ways To Get Credit For Your Work (When You’re Not Gettin’ Any)
March 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This is another post prompted by an Ask Brian question I got via email that was too narrow to post here, but got me thinking along these lines.
A lot of people toil away in their jobs, doing good work, working hard… only to see lesser, stupider people jump ahead of them on the career ladder.
If […]
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Working From Home Not For Everyone
February 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Technology is reaching the point where I can carry my entire office in my pocket. And various software packages now allow me to access my office materials from any computer anywhere in the world.
It almost feels like we’re getting to that mythical point where being physically present in an office will seem quaintly unnecessary.
Or maybe […]
Tags: Office Politcs · Productivity · WorkLife
When Your Boss Is On Facebook
February 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Chalk this up as another inevitability of our age.
Ever since social networks have been around, they’ve sort of been like the music your parents wouldn’t like because the music was too loud. You could post pictures from your keg party because you knew no one of any authority or importance would know how to/be interested […]
Tags: ... Or Hardly Working? · Computers Work 4 U · My Dumb Boss · Office Politcs
7 Embarrassing Breaches of Workplace Etiquette
January 18th, 2008 · No Comments
If we put our heads together, we can surely add a bunch to this list. Pitch in with your favorites in the comments.
C/O TimesOnline for the original post.
P.S.: Yes, that’s British slang you’re reading. I’ve included links to definitions.
1. Losing track of gossip. There’s nothing worse than sharing a juicy piece of semi-anonymous scuttlebutt […]
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Office Warfare, By Sun Tzu
January 17th, 2008 · No Comments
There’s a great post up at Dumb Little Man giving you a rundown of office-politics survival-strategies. It’s an unusually well thought-out post, as these sort of posts go, and it reads a bit like Sun Tzu mixed with Machiavelli. Some of my favorite techniques:
Before Engaging in Political Battle, Know How Much Power You Have. This […]
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How To Tell When A Co-Worker Is Lying
January 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Some of us work in pleasant, civilized workplaces. The rest of us live in a cut-throat jungle full of back-stabbings, double-crosses and deceit.
It’s hard to get ahead in the office politics rat-race if you don’t have a good sense of when someone is lying straight to your face. You know the situations: the long-delayed project […]
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