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Playing Office Politics Without Selling Your Soul

Harvard Business Review

.” Whether you participate in them or not, politics have a big influence on what happens to you, your projects, and your team, so it’s hard to be indifferent to them. Interpersonal influence : a convincing ability to affect how and what other people think. Social science has a lot to say about practicing good politics.