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Ten Years On: Semi-random Reflections from a Decade of Coaching

Next Level Blog

Nancy is a fabulous career coach who focuses on moms who want to get back into their careers. Here's to your next level, Steve Posted by: Steve Laswell | December 01, 2010 at 10:42 PM Great post.

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Playing Office Politics Without Selling Your Soul

Harvard Business Review

To borrow from the political scientist, Harold Laswell , office politics can be understood as the unwritten rules that determine who gets what, when, and how — a promotion, a budget for a project, a say in the boss’s decisions — and who doesn’t. Learning to decode, and speak, this secret language of organizations is pivotal to your career survival and to becoming a major player at work. Politics is a dirty word.