To paraphrase the old saw about suckers at a poker table: If you can’t spot the sneaky gossip at the office, it’s probably …
office politics
Workplace Bullying: The Problem — and Its Costs — Are Worse Than We Thought
For all the recent concern over teen bullying, large numbers of adults also deal with peer-to-peer intimidation, especially at work: Approximately one in four U.S. workers say they’ve been bullied on the job, according to the …
Make Office Politics Work for You
You may try to avoid it, but the reality is that office politics is how power is managed in many organizations. Here are three ways you can navigate the system, even if you object to it:
Talking politics at work
Our morning meetings are dominated by politics. Today’s led off with a rousing post-mortem of the surprising results in Iowa last night. We talked about Time.com‘s speedy and smart coverage, Joe Klein’s take on Obama’s victory, and Joel Stein’s video analysis of one voting center at an Iowa elementary school (it has to do with cookies …