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

Next Level Blog

  Technology, globalism, competition, structural shifts in the economy, generational expectations and so many other factors have merged together to make the practice of leadership - influencing people to work together on common goals - a lot more complicated than it was ten years ago.  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

” 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. 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. Influence Digital Article