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I'm not really sure people really appreciate how damaging office politics is.
You have at all these phenomenally intelligent people in a room, in a meeting
making decisions around a table
and they think they made the decision, we all thought we agreed and then we walk
outside and the real discussion takes place by the water cooler, over the
coffee machine, in little whispers as people move from one table to the next
and it can destroy the entire organisation
people are doing it typically because they want feel important.
If they don't feel important they gonna make sure that they're important for a reason,
they're going to find a way to make sure they have an impact on this
community.
One of the vulnerabilities though for these people as they try to make themselves feel important
or to push their own personal agenda and play their workplace games
is that there is a vulnerability with employees to think that there's a big stock pile of cash somewhere
and no matter how well
or poorly they do their job, their wage can still come out that cash.
Most employees don't really understand the idea of cash-flow;
that money is flowing in, to a pipe, and it can flow out
to the people, the employees.
They don't realise that their role can shut that down.
When you've got more people putting more energy into workplace politics than you
have putting into workplace productivity then you are fundamentally stuffed.
As a manager if you think that just tolerating it or keeping a tap on it
or that "I put that person in my office & told them that's not what they should do"
if you think that's a satisfying, a strategy that's going to save you, you're crazy. You must get on top of
office politics.
You need to create a
culture in your organisation
that liberates ability.
A dysfunctional culture
or culture where people have personal agendas,
it destroys productivity,
it creates all sorts of issues with bullying
it creates all sorts of issues with quality people leaving
it's fundamentally a miserable workplace and if people are not
enjoying the workplace, they don't work hard, they don't want to come, they don't
create productivity and your business does not grow and sooner or later if it ain't
growing
it's dying.