subject: What You Need to Know About The Art of Politics - in Leadership [print this page] When the workplace Politician gets busy he undermines you and your colleagues. Staff conversation becomes cynical and their expectations of behaviour are lowered. The pleasant working atmosphere you used to take for granted is gone.
The workplace Politician is as dangerous as a white ant. He can be just as invisible and as undermining as a white ant colony. He can eat the fabric of your company from the inside.
Why does the workplace Politician behave in such an underhanded way? Because it works - in the short term.
He has a mistaken belief that because others are questioning your output and your performance then his performance will not be questioned. In this he is just like the leaders of the political parties.
Fortunately for you and your business, he becomes just as visible in his mud throwing as the leader of a political party - eventually.
That is usually when I get to meet him!
What You Need to Know About The Art of Politics - in Leadership
