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部分office politics 阅读摘要如下
Don’t wait for it to happen; don’t even want it to happen. Just watch what does happen.
“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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