Politics at work start early
Politics - embedded
Here’s four quick quotes from current jobs being advertised, spot the common word:
- “You will posses demonstrated leadership, influencing and negotiation skills”
- “…excellent communication and influencing skills”
- “..combine specialist knowledge with strong management and influencing skills”
- “Excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels”.
All of these jobs are operational or audit roles, not sales or business development. Which means the people they are influencing are internal people in the same organisation. We have set up a political organisation from the start.