The book will be broken down into the following sections: Part 1: DirtyTricks on the Increase Introduction What are DirtyTricks Why are they on the increase What damage does it cause You dont have to get your hands dirty! Part 2: 21 DirtyTricks at Work Title (see below for example titles and content) Short Description Commentary on what is going on Top Tips on handling it Part 3: Navigating the Morass Key hints and tips for handling games How to protect your integrity New organisational design / dynamic Vision of the utopian organisation which says no to naïve bean-baggery and tree-hugging Towards the building of a tough but fair environment Transforming the culture Example Dirty Tricks are: My Hands are Tied Pretending to be helpless due to the influence of a higher authority or process, when under the same circumstances but with a different person, there would be a different outcome Sorry Ben but the policy is Fall Guy / The Patsy Assigning projects or tasks – which are destined to fail – to an expendable leader/manager so that they can be blamed for the failure, or to reassign favoured employees away from reputation threatening failure Byers Funeral The tactic of releasing bad news at a time when other people will be too distracted by other more pressing events to notice, or to care Email to the Gods Using email to shame or coerce another. Usually an email arriving from a colleague (which includes either true or false information) levelling accusations of blame, which are also copied on to bosses, directors, customers, suppliers etc, frequently using the Bcc function.
Book Details:
- Author: Mike Phipps
- ISBN: 9780857084842
- Year Published: 2005
- Pages: 280
- BISAC: BUS041000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Management
About the Book and Topic:
The book will be broken down into the following sections: Part 1: DirtyTricks on the Increase Introduction What are DirtyTricks Why are they on the increase What damage does it cause You dont have to get your hands dirty! Part 2: 21 DirtyTricks at Work Title (see below for example titles and content) Short Description Commentary on what is going on Top Tips on handling it Part 3: Navigating the Morass Key hints and tips for handling games How to protect your integrity New organisational design / dynamic Vision of the utopian organisation which says no to naïve bean-baggery and tree-hugging Towards the building of a tough but fair environment Transforming the culture Example Dirty Tricks are: My Hands are Tied Pretending to be helpless due to the influence of a higher authority or process, when under the same circumstances but with a different person, there would be a different outcome Sorry Ben but the policy is Fall Guy / The Patsy Assigning projects or tasks – which are destined to fail – to an expendable leader/manager so that they can be blamed for the failure, or to reassign favoured employees away from reputation threatening failure Byers Funeral The tactic of releasing bad news at a time when other people will be too distracted by other more pressing events to notice, or to care Email to the Gods Using email to shame or coerce another. Usually an email arriving from a colleague (which includes either true or false information) levelling accusations of blame, which are also copied on to bosses, directors, customers, suppliers etc, frequently using the Bcc function.
An estimated £7.8bn is lost each year in the UK alone through unnecessary and counter-productive office politicking isnt it about time we all took a little more responsibility to stop this dreadful waste? The aim of this book is to forewarn people in organizations about the 21 most pernicious and damaging negative political strategies. The authors suggest ways in which these negative tactics can be navigated successfully so that self-esteem, credibility and integrity are protected and enhanced and sanity preserved! The key questions that the book helps the reader to understand are What is a game and how do I recognise one? What games are people playing on me? Who are the master game players I need to watch out for? How much time do I spend on negative politics? What can I do to stop these games? How can I maintain my integrity and sanity in the process? The book will also explore the cost and implications of the politics of self-interest on the individual, the team and the organisation. There is also some compelling evidence and statistics to support this.
It is estimated that £7.8bn is lost each year in the UK alone through negative office politicking the authors are on a mission to get Machiavelli and his corporate cahorts on the run and the timing is perfect to do this. Authors are committed to heavily promoting the book through their work this will include media work, corporate training, sub-licencing the brand to distribution partners, contributing to executive development programmes, and a UK mini-tour of speaking engagements at seminars, conferences at networking events throughout the UK. The ideas in the book have also been brought to life by a team of professional actors at RADA. Book will be illustrated with cartoons throughout, to emphasise some of the lighter sides of the office politics game Perfect impulse purchase for the business travel market
About the Author
Mike Phipps and Colin Gautrey are co-founders of Politics at Work Ltd, a London-based firm established in 2003 to help individuals and corporates stem the rising tide of office politics. It is the belief of Politics at Work Ltd that the vast majority of people working in organizations want to do good work but are frequently hamstrung or demotivated by negative corporate politics and power struggles. It is the aim of Politics at Work therefore to enable people, teams and organizations to be more effective by tackling these issues in a creative, safe and empowering manner, in the belief that together we can make our organizations better places to live and work.