Games At Work: How to Recognize and Reduce Office Politics

"A terrific read not only for senior leaders and executives but also for employees seeking growth in complex organizations. Goldstein and Read dissect the interpersonal dynamics that affect a company's performance, provide a framework to understand the games that are commonly played in businesses around the world, and offer practical tools to correct these behaviors and improve the organization's effectiveness."
?Jacopo Bracco, executive vice president, DIRECTV Latin America

"Whether you are an employee, manager, or CEO, this book will help you uncover the games that are going on around you and in your organization and will arm you with strategies to combat the negative effects of these games."
?Corey J. Seitz, vice president, global talent management, Johnson & Johnson

"This book is a good warning sign for organizational life. A road map of potholes and wrong turns. Written in a clear and down-to-earth way, its strength is its concreteness."
?Peter Block, author, Community: The Structure of Belonging

"Play or don't play, your choice. But if you need to manage and aspire to lead, you must read Goldstein and Read's helpful treatment of the games going on all around you all the time. Prepare to be entertained and disconcerted in equal measure."
?Se?n Meehan, Martin Hilti Professor of Marketing and Change Management, IMD

"Goldstein and Read provide an accessible and penetrating discussion of the twenty-two most common games at work and their individual and organizational causes, business costs, and remedies. Every working person who has ever been a victim or perpetrator of political games will profit from reading Games at Work."
?Harvey A. Hornstein, emeritus professor of psychology; former director of Columbia University Organizational Development Programs; and organizational consultant more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-19-2009; From low-balling sales as a negotiating trick to engaging in gossip for political advantage and more; GAMES AT WORK: HOW TO RECOGNIZE & REDUCE OFFICE POLITICS comes from two organizational experts who argue that office games can be unconscious as well as conscious and can be minimized with tools to diagnose and short-circuit them. From...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-03-2009; Getting Away From "Gotcha"; This book should have a familiar ring to anyone who has ever worked in an office. It helps you recognize the games we have named "office politics". These games, however, are much more intense and with deeper consequences than Scrabble or...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-22-2009; Rules for Games; There are many ways in which well-intended, hard-working people get tripped up in the workplace, and "Games" uncovers many of them. Goldstein and Read's account of the subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, tricks and traps provides an...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-12-2009; So Many Games...So Little Chances to Survive; Almost like a snowflake, no one corporate game is the same. There are simply a miriad of games played; and games played inside of games. At times, the games are amusing; at times they are blatantly rigged, and not at all amusing for...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-19-2009; From low-balling sales as a negotiating trick to engaging in gossip for political advantage and more; GAMES AT WORK: HOW TO RECOGNIZE & REDUCE OFFICE POLITICS comes from two organizational experts who argue that office games can be unconscious as well as conscious and can be minimized with tools to diagnose and short-circuit them. From...; read full review | report as inappropriate