How to deal with office politics.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
When I suggested the idea #apodadayinmay in the podcast's closed Facebook group and asked what people wanted to hear, questions and requests for shows about how to deal with office politics, corporate culture and workplace issues made up about 60% of the comments. So in this episode I want to address the topic as a whole, offers some resources but also use it as a place to say that this definitely a subject we are going to explore in much more detail with the help of experts and contributors who can add value to the conversation.
In the meantime, here are the links referenced in the show:
How to Survive a Cutthroat Corporate Culture by Liz Ryan on Forbes.com
The Moment I Realised I was Working for an Idiot by Liz Ryan on Forbes.com
What I Learned about Office Politics that Changed my Career by Bonnie Marcus on Forbes.com
5 Tips for Dealing with Office Politics when you're a Nice Person on cnbc.com
Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks by Oliver James.
Be Bulletproof: How to achieve success in tough times at work by James Brooke and Simon Brooke.
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| 0:44.0 | Emma Gonna Wardner and in this episode we're going to be talking about office |
| 0:48.7 | politics and corporate culture. |
| 0:50.4 | Hmm and the reason we're talking about office politics is because when I announced |
| 0:57.8 | hashtag apodaday in May in the Facebook group a few weeks ago or a few weeks weeks before a day and May started, I should say. |
| 1:05.2 | So many people contributed questions or just made comments around how to deal with corporate culture, how to manage difficult |
| 1:15.7 | personalities in the workplace, how to deal with office bullies and more. In fact, when |
| 1:21.9 | I went through it, I'd say that questions and comments around the workplace |
| 1:29.1 | and challenges within the workplace in terms of dynamics and the like made up around 60% of the |
| 1:34.8 | topic request that came into the group. So I don't want to disappoint you but |
| 1:40.0 | this isn't going to be a long episode because this requires expert intervention and |
| 1:45.9 | expert contribution. |
| 1:48.2 | But I didn't want to skim past the subject during the daily podcast because clearly |
| 1:52.3 | it's something we need to have a bigger |
| 1:54.6 | conversation or conversations about and moreover it's something that clearly is |
| 1:59.9 | affecting a lot of listeners so rather than half-ars an episode where I give my top tips |
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