Category archives: Office Politics

Don’t make a big deal out of isolated incidents but when you see a bad pattern emerging you have to speak up.

Workplaces are becoming more political, and that’s never a good thing.

Everybody is aggravating to somebody some of the time. A jerk is aggravating to everybody all the time.

A company’s early stages offer a golden opportunity to establish the values that will prevent discord down the road.

Sometimes, we care so deeply that we’re willing to put our reputations on the line for what we feel in our hearts to be right.

Politics is simply the process, done well or poorly, of divvying up whatever there is too little of for everybody to have all they want.

Don’t allow politics to change the way you see your colleagues, instead find work-related goals and values to discuss.