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Actual for You - Office Politics: Survival of the Savvy
As a leader, if you've looked around you and wondered why some leaders seem to have all the time in the world, while you're feeling stressed and under the hammer, perhaps you need to lead the lazy way instead.The Oxford University Press defines Lazy as:1. Unwilling to work or use energy. 2. Showing or characterized by a lack of effort or care.Both of these are very good definitions of what the lazy leader should be; unwilling to expend useless energy and characterised by a lack of effort. Unfortunately, the definition is somewha
Many individuals have good ideas
Recently a very innovative and bright business-marketing student had a brilliant idea for her marketing project. Building a filtration and reverse osmosis system to clean car wash water at a car wash and then reuse it for all the other water needs at the car wash such as landscaping, toilets and pressure washing the concrete and facilities. But the question is if someone produces such a system to do this, can they sell it and will car wash owners buy it?Business Marketing Student Paula Chavis has the whole thing worked out as she uses this innovati
Tales of political sabotage, power plays and turf wars are part of any organization’s history. Nonetheless, political competence is the one skill everyone wishes to have more of—but no one admits to it.
Political competence is the “ability to understand what you can and cannot control, when to take action, who is going to resist your agenda, and whom you need on your side. It’s about knowing how to map the political terrain and get others on your side, as well as lead coalitions,” according to Prof. Samuel B. Bacharach who wrote Getting Them On Your Side, 2005.
Many individuals have good ideas
It is possible that a stock car can produce the sonic boom of traveling faster than the sound barrier? It happened yesterday in Mexico City in a NASCAR race. Don't believe me? Check the facts:• NASCAR's newest big addition to its driver stable is Juan Pablo Montoya.• ESPN broadcast the race entirely in Spanish with their ESPN Deportes crew. The English version was available on ESPN2!• Montoya wins the race in an exciting green-white-checkered finish making him the first Hispanic driver to win a NASCAR race.• 43 million Latinos
Political competence is the “ability to understand what you can and cannot control, when to take action, who is going to resist your agenda, and whom you need on your side. It’s about knowing how to map the political terrain and get others on your side, as well as lead coalitions,” according to Prof. Samuel B. Bacharach who wrote Getting Them On Your Side, 2005.
Many individuals have good ideas
Over the decades that I've been involved in sales, I've worked with tens of thousands of salespeople. Certain negative tendencies -- mistakes that salespeople make -- keep surfacing. Here are my top five. See to what degree you (or your sales force) may be guilty of them.Mistake Number One: Over concern with strategy instead of tacticsGather a group of salespeople together around a coffee maker and listen to the conversation. After the obligatory complaints about all types of things, the conversation inevitably drifts to questions of strateg
Political competence is the “ability to understand what you can and cannot control, when to take action, who is going to resist your agenda, and whom you need on your side. It’s about knowing how to map the political terrain and get others on your side, as well as lead coalitions,” according to Prof. Samuel B. Bacharach who wrote Getting Them On Your Side, 2005.
Many individuals have good ideas
I'm writing this for people who like the idea of online registration but imagine it's a time consuming ordeal to get set up. If you are using a professional full service online registration provider you can be fully set up by investing as little as an hour of your time for basic seminars, meetings, conferences or online ticket sales forms.A breakdown of the steps to online registration:Research (10 mins)If you're new to online event registration you'll want to spend a few minutes checking out the different options ava
Many individuals have good ideas
One of my clients is drowning in dozens of reports collectively containing over 100 measures. Where he expects two measures from separate reports to have the same values, they don't. Where he expects a measure's value to be accepted by his customer, it is disputed. Where he thinks he's looking at the right measure to answer his question, someone warns him no. The tangle of reports and measures is unwieldy, but has become the dogma of decision-making. Untangling them all into a streamlined sensible suite of reports is not as simple as setting up a swanky s
Many individuals have good ideas that, if implemented, could yield positive results for their companies. Sometimes these ideas fail because the leaders who propose them cannot gain support from key people.
Defining Political Savvy
It’s naive to suggest that all office politics are destructive and unethical. If you define politics in such a narrow and negative way, you overlook the value of political awareness and skill. When political astuteness is combined with ethics and integrity, it can produce positive results for you, your team and your organization.
By avoiding or denying its existence, you unde
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