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Another fun way to suppress office politics is to light proverbial (or literal!) fires that require cooperation to fix. This obviously has the negative propert
by diminoten 8y ago
Another fun way to suppress office politics is to light proverbial (or literal!) fires that require cooperation to fix.
This obviously has the negative property of not at all feeding and watering anyone involved, which leads to people burning out, quitting, imploding, exploding, etc., but if your sole goal is to squash office politics, continually having your team jump from fire to fire will do the trick!
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> Another fun way to suppress office politics is to light proverbial (or literal!) fires that require cooperation to fix Strategic thinkers will use the fires to throw others under the bus. This negative behaviour will likely surface as management deliberately torturing employees drives the good apples away. You see this, too, at a national level. A single, meaningful crisis brings people together (think: Pearl Harbor.) A single, meaningless crisis makes people cynical (think: Vietnam). Repeated crises, regardless of meaning, inevitably tear societies apart.
- diminoten 8y agoGood point! I wrote my comment to try and illustrate that politics, while often seen as evil, is critically important to a sustainably functioning team. Society, offices, all groups of people need politics.