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The Office Crab Criticizes Everyone!

Dear Office-Politics, I am writing on behalf of a group of diverse and hardworking coworkers among whom morale is at an all time low. Our often bumbling managers have a history of granting knee jerk behind the doors promotions, creating new positions without posting them and making surprise staffing changes. Some ...

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Tactics to compete with difficult coworker?

Dear Office-Politics, I am writing on behalf of a close friend, "Jane," who has asked me to help her find tactics to compete with a difficult coworker. Jane has been in her current job a bit over two years. For the first year, she felt valued and generally satisfied with her position. ...

Posted in Coworkers driving me Crazy, office politics | 31 Comments »

I thought I had an OK work relationship but

Dear Office Politics, I have worked in a high-stress but free-wheeling media office for more than 20 years, and am good at my job, have OK people skills and am generally respected. I received a promotion about a year ago. However, since moving into a particular department (mostly other women) about ...

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Got a “Promotion” but Title is Ambiguous

Jane Perdue, MBA, CEO and founder of The Braithewaite Group, is a leadership consultant, coach, speaker and author who challenges your thinking at the intersection of the art of leadership and the science of business. The Braithewaite Group, is a small female-owned professional development and leadership consulting ...

Posted in Climbing the Ladder, office politics | 6 Comments »

Swamped! (While Coworker Does Nothing)

Rona Maynard's career as a pace-setting magazine editor, award-winning journalist, acclaimed author and inspirational speaker owes much to the lessons she has drawn from coping with difficult people, both professionally and personally. Rona edited Chatelaine, Canada’s number one magazine for women, during a decade of innovation in which she ...

Posted in Coaching Employees, Coworkers driving me Crazy, office politics | 13 Comments »

Why did General McChrystal Wound the King?

By Franke James Trapped by vindictive gossip The simmering tension between the White House and General McChrystal came to a head thanks to an article in Rolling Stone, The Runaway General. The subtitle summed up the conflict: "Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never ...

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I don’t understand this obsession to know what everyone is doing, or to tell everyone what I’m doing

Posted in Climbing the Ladder, office politics | 4 Comments »

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