The most important decisions about your career and growth in an organisation are taken in your absence! Do you agree?
Hence, its super important that you have the correct perceptions about yourself at the workplace among your peers and your seniors. We generally tend to shy away from office politics thinking it is probably unethical and wrong to indulge in it. I ran a short poll on how people think about workplace politics and a whopping 54% said they stay away and that's exactly what you shouldn't be doing.
Why? Because 'if you don't do politics, politics will do you', which is also the title of Niven's book. A perfect title I think.
Niven goes onto claim in the book, 'there is strong evidence that our work ratings, bonuses, and promotions are weakly correlated to actual performance – in fact, performance may even matter less to our success than our political skills and how we are perceived by those who make the decisions', harsh and scary but true.
I discuss at length with Niven trying to first clear the clouds around politics and make a strong case for why you should take the 'politics bull' by the horns. By the way, there is a thing called positive politics. Tune in!
The discussion is based on the book: https://www.amazon.in/YOU-DONT-POLITICS-WILL-effectively-ebook/dp/B08G8SMFSC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEOLNOIFQPW5&keywords=if+you+dont+do+politics&qid=1641676378&sprefix=if+you+dont+do+politics%2Caps%2C320&sr=8-1
