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Uncommon Results: A Practice of Positive Politics

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Friday, August 27, 2010

I once had a boss who informed me there was no such thing as company politics. At the time, I decided that depended on whether you were the person wielding power or the one influenced by it.

For most people, self-serving antics, sabotaging behaviors, information hoarding, and artful manipulation fall under a company politics label. Add veiled threats, perpetuated mistruths, finger-pointing, and coercion and you've described a disengaging culture fraught with fear - fear that you'll step

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