Welcome to Manager Tools.

Politics 101.

Chapter 6. Politics are just relationships.

Part 2.

This cast answers these questions.

Should I play politics?

How can I get better at office politics?

Why does politics have a bad reputation?

Well, if you want answers to these and more,

keep listening.

Here we go.

Now I want to take an aside here and mention something I've told thousands of people over the last 20 years.

If you ask me right now in 2018, one of the potentially systemic weaknesses

of our present professional development, talent management, talent development systems that exist in organizations in the world.

And obviously, if you have an organization at 10 people, you probably don't have a talent development system in place.

So we're talking generally about larger organizations, organizations in the 100 plus million

dollar turnover or revenue range. There's a fundamental problem right now, in my opinion, at the top of

organizations where the world has become more technological, particularly in the area of software, and we need more executives who have

been exposed to that world.

The world of delivering software, the world of risk associated with online activities and so on. And so what you would

assume what happened is we would reach into the technological part of our organization and all things being equal if there are two people being considered for a more senior, more fiduciary role, more of a senior executive role, more of a

top 50 role in the organization, we might have a slight bias not to a person but to a person with a particular type of

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