Archive for the 'Office Politics' Category

A WOW Working Experience

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Dear CEO,
What do your people feel when they wake up in the morning and have to go to work? Is it something like “I wish I could just wake up when the weekend starts”, or is it more like “oh well, I guess I have no choice, do I”? Or is it something completely different?
You […]

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Sleeping With The “Enemy”

Friday, October 20th, 2006

What do police officers, vultures, hunters, guards, predators, and cleaning people, have in common? And what they are all doing in my blog?

[Warning: not too good metaphor ahead] When I was a teenager, I thought all teachers have one purpose in life: to hunt me! And guess what, all my friends felt pretty much the […]

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The Emperor’s New Clothes Syndrome

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

There’s a huge gap between how software development is discussed in books, articles, blogs, and forums, and the way software companies actually run their R&D operations. It’s as if we live in two parallel universes. In one universe most of us know exactly what we should do to develop better software – software that has […]

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Are All Politicians Bad?

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

Whenever I talk with managers about office politics I get this apologizing, yet sometimes accusing, look saying: “What can we do? If you’re not a politician around here you do not exist”. And this is probably the case. Managers have to be politicians to do their job well. Is that bad?
Politicians are generally not highly […]

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