There are many reasons why you may well struggle to handle the politics, though these three are hard to beat.
Top of my list, your attitude to workplace politics.
If you hate it you will shy away from it and fail to learn how to do it properly.
Second, you can’t see it.
Lack of awareness will always get you burned sooner or later.
Finally, sorry, you don’t have enough friends.
This is more than having friends in high places. You need friends everywhere: feeding you titbits of intelligence, watching your back, sticking up for you, and much more besides.
So come on, start making friends.
Allan Cohen (author of Influence without Authority) shared some great tips with me when I interviewed him.
More about Making Friends and Handling the Politics
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