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