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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.
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the key is not to winning at office politics but most importantly to be highly effective in a reality world
Perhaps for some people what is written in this book is really obvious.
However for me - and most of the people I have met through my career - it was far from obvious, and I think this book helped me to consider things in a different way.
We are not even speaking about "House of cards"-type politics, but just the basics:
Do you know your goals?
And then evaluate people around you not according to whether they are "nice people" or not (everything is subjective anyway), but whether they can help you reach your goals or not.
Only reading this made me reconsider my daily relationships with other people at work.
Of course there is much more to it, but if you go back home angry at least once a week because the person with who you have to work is tough to work with, you might as well read this book, relax and then hopefully things will get better!
I bought this book last year when things at my workplace had gone so bad that I as well as other members of staff were seen as the "Problem" and the CEO wanted us out of the organisation. I took the advise that this book had to offer and implemented them although I had to admit that implementing some of the recommendations were very difficult for me especially when I thought I had done nothing wrong. What the book says is true."The person with most power wins" "Getting worked up about fairness is a waste of time and politically stupid. Leverage is the key to getting what you want and if you have enough leverage, fairness is no longer an issue." The book really gives guidance on how to win at office politics. After reading, I realised the politically stupid things I have been doing and started making changes immidiately.In short, after a few months, I was seen as being one of the most helpful people in the organistion. Infact when my other collegues were shown the gate, I was maintained and this year when I had a new job the CEO did not want me to leave! I will buy any book written by Marie. Marie, you did a great job by writing this book.
This is an excellent read especially for those who find themselves at large corporations. It takes a very practical and sensible approach to thriving in the corporate world and pointing out and remedying when necessary the many pitfalls and challenges that many of so naively walked into - well, it's not like you can take a college course on office politics. This is not a book on succeeding in business through guerrilla tactics which people may find immoral or offensive. However, this does not mean that the author is naive about the real world and takes a rosy superficial approach to the real corporate world challenges.
The book covers many real world scenarios that she has seen personally in her many years in the business world helping people. If you are politically inept and find yourself walking through this world emotionally reacting and not purposefully thinking and acting on issues, then you are in luck, this book gives practical guidance in preventing unknowing political suicide. It will also help many of us, who recognizes some of these important but are unsure of ourselves in dealing with them, or we would like to learn more.
It discusses issues like political power, leverage, allies, dealing with adversaries and avoiding political pitfalls. Here are a few highlights to give you a taste.
"Acceptance of the Organizational Facts of Life is an absolute prerequisite for developing Political Intelligence. Otherwise, you will find yourself constantly agonizing about whether you are being treated 'fairly' and fretting about fairness is a complete waste of time."
"There are four common causes of career destruction, 1 poorly controlled emotions, 2 a victim mentality, 3 self-centered goals 4 foolish reactions to change."
"Most people, most of the time, operate on autopilot. They proceed through the day doing whatever comes naturally. Sometimes things go their way and sometimes not. In a sense, they're unconscious of their own behavior, of their effect on others, of any point of view except their own."
Not only does the book explain the issues directly and through examples, it offers lots of insight into those problems, it guides you and directs you how to immediately starting working on them through specific tasks that you can readily do.
This book delivered on what I expected, a light read that I could read when I had a few moments to spare. It was very well written, entertaining and interesting so it was hard to put down.
I like how it makes you think about the consequences and gives examples on what happens if you let yourself be caught up in childlike behavior for too long when resisting change at the office or trying to oppose bosses or colleagues with more political power than you do.
In that way, it forces up your eyes to the harsh reality if you have them closed.
I was recommended this book by a successful working professional. I found that this book is very straighforward and honest in discussing the personalities, power, and dynamics of work environments. In parallel, I read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carenegie. While Carnegie's book is useful in dealing with "most people", McIntyre's is better: it aknowledges that there are friends, colleagues, adveraries, and potential enemies. Having aknowledged this, she presents effective and useful strategies thay have been found to work in most situations. McIntyre also corretly states that there wil be situations where the only effective solution is to have an exit strategy and a clear and defined alternative goal.
I cannot stress enough how useful the advice presented in this book is for personal relationships as well. Read the book and subsitute the words "workplace", "colleague", "manager", with "circle of friends", "friend", and "friend of circle of friends who as more power than you do". The same concepts apply. Carnegie's book unfortunatley does not acknowledge that there are toxic people in the professional and personal world, and if taken at face value one may be in danger of being a push over. McIntyre's book, on the other hand, calls a spade a spade and provides solutions that, if incorporated over time, will generally improve your professional and personal life.
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