Company Politics and Your Horizon

“Stay out of company politics,” the ambitious newcomer is warned, “or you’ll get your throat cut before you know where you are.”

It is an old warning with a lot of tradition to support it. The fact that tradition supports it, however, should be enough to make it suspect. Company politics has seen its evil days, and some organizations are still torn with it, but by and large the day when close-knit groups resented each other in general and all ambitious newcomers in particular is drawing to a close. As both the groups and the affected companies have learned in recent years, such intramural skill shining for prestige and influence did the groups no good while greatly impairing the productivity of the company. Read More at EmploymentCrossing

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