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最近被职场政治困扰: 一直理解有人经常做损人利己,揽功推过的事情,但困惑有人居然做损人不利己的事情。
刚读完论坛上下载的The Office Politics Handbook。
作者写得非常好。从理论上帮我们正视职场政治是常态,不得不面对。
精要摘要如下:Politics is about power, and certain individuals minimize other things they value in their lives, such as wealth, health, respect, morality, or love for the attainment of power. These individuals resort to power-seeking when they calculate political behavior will serve their interests more than other types of behavior. In short, some people thrive on power, but we are all political animals.
What is power? Power is anything that facilitates control by one human over another. What is politics? Politics is any social situation in which power is introduced. The essence of politics is self-interest, which is the most reliable standard to measure the success of political action. Politics is about power, the acquisition of power, the distribution of power, and the uses and abuses of power.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”—Socrates
Our purpose here is to develop your political imagination and sharpen your political instincts. This includes improving your skill at general pattern recognition and helping you see that few political behaviors, events, or interactions are unprecedented one-of-a –kind situations.
This is what micropolitics is all about: how you respond to adversity. Your long-term, habitual response to adversity is an important indicator of your self-mastery. You should not back away from adversity because—depending on your response—adversity can build capacity and serve as the foundation of future success.
“In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of the individual.”—Jung
As a reminder, your identifications are the categories to which you belong, your demands are your desired outcomes, and your expectations are your beliefs about the future, particularly your expectations that the future will be better than the past.
Politics is society’s method for the distribution of power and resources. Politics is the way you and I preserve our freedom and how future generations will preserve theirs. Politics is not poisonous unless you permit it to be.
As Frankl said, “If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.”
You should not let yourself become a function of society. You should not permit yourself to become a “human resource” to be plugged into (or cruelly unplugged from) the labor market. This is the foundation of freedom for you and everyone around you.
As your self-mastery increases, so will your self-respect and self-confidence. This will radiate outward and change the way people perceive you. Additionally, it will increase your ability to influence the behavior of the people around you: subordinates and superiors, and of course your peers.
The important thing is not to lose sight of your goal, not to compromise your integrity, and never to forget your promises.
In micropolitics, success means knowing the purpose and goal of your life and proceeding humbly toward that goal.
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