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Office politics isn’t optional: Learn to play the game or you’ll be its victim
Most of us disapprove of wily work machinations, but experts say ignoring power structures will hold you back.
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If there is one thing most people seem to hate more than politics, it’s office politics.
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Miranda Green
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If there is one thing most people seem to hate more than politics, it’s office politics. Back-stabbing, conniving, sucking up and kicking down: Being on career-enhancing manoeuvres makes people a target of derision among colleagues. This is often laced with envy if their machinations produce results.
As the band The Divine Comedy put it in their 2019 song Office Politics: “Press the flesh, do the deal/ Book your place on the hamster wheel.”
