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I can’t quite tell if you’re missing the point. The pizza analogy is just some simple case that’s easy to explain in a paragraph. The book is on negotiations, s

I can’t quite tell if you’re missing the point. The pizza analogy is just some simple case that’s easy to explain in a paragraph. The book is on negotiations, so they need some easy case to negotiate. I’ve had to negotiate for my team at work before and one common thing I hear at private discussions with other parties when in planning for the meetings is that it’s backwards and toxic to have business politics and they want to leave the team over it. this feels like you’re take - and it misses the point that today, you have to accomplish some task. Even if you’re against politics at work, you’re beholden to them once they start. Tomorrow is for deciding if you should accept reality or make changes. And some things aren’t likely to go away.

jka 5y ago
Generally I think my perspective on the issue is that a lot has been written already, and that people have a tendency to rewrite and bring-to-market content that is a rehash of existing knowledge, as opposed to gathering people together towards consensus (and expansion, and critique) of existing best-known information. Perhaps writing books is an expression of that; and perhaps my frustration is because I wonder whether we could do better in the digital age. In the context of workplace politics: again, these are all patterns that have been repeated for generations. Perhaps it's possible to document and make those patterns public, and then help people to view and decide upon the kind of workplace(s) they'd like to contribute to.