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I’m told, “This is the way things will always be”

OfficePolitics.com asked best-selling author, Dan Heath, how an Office-Politics reader (a teacher in an inner city high school) could make change happen, when change is very hard. Dan wrote, "What you’re describing is a culture problem, and culture change takes time. I don’t have a quick fix. But I ...

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‘Dear Office-Politics’ Snags Axiom Book Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2010 -– Toronto, Canada Dear Office-Politics, the game everyone plays is the winner of a 2010 Axiom Business Book Award. Franke James' innovative game-book was awarded the Bronze Medal in the HR/Employee Training category. Dear Office-Politics is a role-playing game that encourages lively discussion of workplace issues. It ...

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Dan Pink on the last career guide you’ll ever need

OfficePolitics.com Interview with best-selling author Dan Pink Franke James, OfficePolitics.com Editor, interviewed Dan Pink, author of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko. We also enlisted Johnny Bunko's kick-ass-career-counselor, Diana, to bestow her wisdom on an Office-Politics reader's dilemma. Read the letter here. Franke James, OP: 'The Adventures of Johnny Bunko' trashes the 'career ...

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I’m the scapegoat of jokes, being the only female

Dear Office-Politics, I have a situation in which I’m not sure how to look at. I am a programmer and I work with a team of six men (or boys). My direct boss and I get along one-on-one but when all of us are together for a meeting, I’m ...

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Animal training to solve office politics problems

Dear Office-Politics, I have been having difficulty with a fellow administrator coming in behind me and directing employees as he sees fit, contradicting the tasks that I have already assigned. The employee doesn't know which one to follow and so they follow the one who is there at the time ...

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My old-supervisor answers to me now…

Dear Office-Politics, Greetings! I have quite the dilemma, though most people think it would be a dream. My old-supervisor answers to me now. To make a long story short, the position of network manager was created, and the network supervisor thought he was going to get it. Unfortunately for him, ...

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