Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, managers and governmental politics. Oil and water. Part one. Here we go. There's nothing more fun than talking about politics at work.

Oh, I thought you were going to say baseball.

No, no.

Baseball gets people excited, but man, politics, it's fun.

It's a lot of fun.

Yeah.

Yeah, you can discover how poorly people argue.

People debate when they're mad.

Anger and intellect, I want to go to bed, don't go together, yeah.

Yeah.

And they do get mad.

And so we're going to talk a little bit about that.

I mean, there's some things that you shouldn't talk about religion, sex, politics,

that's what my mother told me at least. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's pretty good guidance for managers too,

and probably really most professionals at work.

Some topics you just can't get agreement on and in this case and you know these are topics where

folks fuses are shorter than they are and perhaps other areas of the life.

So, yeah, particularly these days.

Yeah, you know, in the year 2010,

it seems like more managers, you know,

maybe the merging of government and organizations, corporations or something, the global national, multinational corporation.

It seems like more managers are being more open about politics.

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