Office Politics for the Pros

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Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 29 August 2013

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Karen Dillon, author of the "HBR Guide to Office Politics," talks with Dorie Clark, author of "Reinventing You."

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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBO Idea cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.0	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.3	I'm in the studio today with Karen Dylan and Dory Clark
0:37.0	to talk about Office Politics.
0:39.2	Karen is the author of the HBO Guide to Office Politics
0:42.4	and is herself the former editor of
0:44.2	HBR. She co-authored with Clayton Christensen and James Allworth,
0:48.1	How Will You Measure Your Life? Dory is a Strategy and Marketing Consultant, the author of the book Reinventing You, and a veteran of several political campaigns.
0:57.0	She was a contributor to the HPR Guide to Office Politics.
1:01.0	Dory, thanks for being here today.
1:02.0	Thank you, Sarah. And Karen, thanks for being here today.
1:02.6	Thank you, Sarah.
1:03.5	And Karen, great to have you back.
1:05.1	Thanks, great to be here.
1:06.6	So when most people talk about office politics,
1:09.0	it sounds like they're talking about it almost as if it's some sort of communicable disease.
1:13.4	But are there ever a circumstances when it's good to play politics or when you might say the
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