Category: Office politics

I’m Outta Here

I recently wrote this sentence in one of my blogs: “Companies talk about their own unique war on talent, how they are best suited to attract the best there is, and spare no effort to do so.“ A friend of mine, a highly regarded specialist in her field outside her company, sent me her comments…
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I Must Have That Man

Do you ever wonder why companies take so long to hire? Especially if you’re a candidate they’re interested in? You speak to one person, then another, and another. The process slows, or stops. You enquire, and are told that, yes, they’re still very much interested and will let you know soon. Sometimes you hear back,…
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Where Do You Stand?

One of the most critical yet vexing challenges at work is to determine exactly where you rank within the company. You may think you’re doing well because you hit your numbers, or that you’ve got a a great way with peers/subordinates/clients, or simply from riding an economic wave, a rising tide lifts all boats.Conversely, you…
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Lunatics At Work; 8 telltale signs

We have all had work exposure to the unhinged. and often steer clear of the more visible lunatics. But none of us can do it every time, and some of the deranged don’t appear to be so at first, which makes it a challenge. Here is my short list of eight signs you’re working with…
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Good Boss, Bad Boss Part II

My blog last week ended when I left the Good [but tough] Boss to take a similar sales job across the street with a major competitor. My new boss was a friend; he and I worked together at the previous company, in different departments. He felt he should have gotten the top job instead of…
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Good Boss, Bad Boss Part I

Years ago when I worked for a company in LA we got in a new boss from Chicago to reorganise the office. He was a bit younger than I, had a reputation of being the no-nonsense sort, and took over a sizable operation-which definitely needed hands-on leadership. I was one of the senior sales people,…
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Illegitimi Non Carborundum

Out for my daily morning constitutional with the dog this morning, and ran into one of the neighbours whom I see sometimes walking his dogs, and exchange pleasantries. I know he’s been looking around the market of late, and asked him if he’d landed any bites. “No, and actually things are getting a bit heated…
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Watch Your Back

I recently caught up over lunch with a friend. She’d recently been promoted, and had to compete for the role with one other person-I’ll call him Ace-who had a more top-down (Oh hell, I’ll say it, micro-managing style) and rigid management style, more filial piety than collaborative, you know the type. Ace was, however, very…
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The Snake in the Grass

I recently had coffee with a friend, a former senior hedge fund manager. He now works on his own, paid his dues over many years in the banks, and for a number of years ran the Asia-Pac investment-banking practice for one of the white-shoe financial institutions. As is my wont, we talked about corporate politics.…
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