![]() If you don’t play, people who aren’t as smart as you will get promoted ahead of you.” ![]() “Whether or not you choose to play, the people around you are playing. “Organizations are much more political than most people realize,” said Borysenko. That’s the persuasive argument made by Karlyn Borysenko of Zen Workplace in her SXSW session, “ Playing Politics: Psychology of the Human Workplace.” They’re so pervasive-and frankly, so important to the way we operate at work-that opting out isn’t a real option. They’re the soft skills we all use to get by, get along, and get ahead. But you know what office politics are at their core? They’re the unspoken rules of the workplace. We associate office politics with backstabbing, bullying, and clawing your way to the top at the expense of others. Not going to HR, not talking to her boss, not talking behind her back or even an intervention of some sort. ![]() I’ve heard variations of this complaint many times, and I’ve found that one thing has the greatest chance of improving the situation: caffeine. ![]() Now I dread meeting with her because I never know what’s coming next.” “Her input on the projects we’re working on has been very heavy-handed and inconsistent. “Her team is really unhappy, and I can’t say that I blame them,” someone once confided to me about a new manager. Follow us here on LinkedIn.Įvery office has one: that strong personality who seems to enjoy conflict more than cooperation and just generally rubs people the wrong way. This story originally appeared on Relate by Zendesk. ![]()
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