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Office Politicos: A Field Guide

Tags: professional development, career, workplace, Team, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Kelly Pate Dwyer, Microsoft Office, BNET Feature

Every workplace has its share of good guys and bad, solo artists and team players. To get ahead — or even just survive — you need to know them all: the good eggs who can become your allies, and the bad apples to avoid (or occasionally placate). Here’s a handy guide to the 10 most common types of office politicians, with tips on how to manage them.

Field Guide to Office Politics

 
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    fiedlerc

    08/04/07 | Report as spam

    OP field guide

    short and sweet, that's all i have to say. this is a great example, visual as well as lexical, to use in class. Thanks for making it available for us all.

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    agundlac@...

    10/25/07 | Report as spam

    RE: Office Politicos: A Field Guide

    All caricatures appear extreme until you meet one head on. Useful guidance -- ignore at your own peril.

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    r.a.stewart@...

    01/25/08 | Report as spam

    RE: Office Politicos: A Field Guide

    Entertaining behavior classification - it would be good to know the background research and how it fits / overlaps with other people classification's

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    valerie.crimi@...

    08/04/08 | Report as spam

    RE: Office Politicos: A Field Guide

    Anyone know how one could contact the author to get approval to reprint for use in a college class presentation.

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