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I am still quite terrified I will not fit in 12 Feb 2013 | 10:29 pm
Dear Office-Politics, I’m a recent college graduate and have never really been very good at playing the office politics game. Sadly, I have already had two positions in the past year and the problems...
Create a Circle of Eyes to Fight Back 3 Feb 2013 | 05:45 am
By Franke James, author, Dear Office-Politics When Ellen Roseman, author and consumer-advocate columnist for The Toronto Star, invited me to contribute to her new book, Fight Back, I was delighted. A...
The New Guy I Hired is Hated… 2 Feb 2013 | 05:52 am
Dear Office Politics, I recently received a promotion and hired my replacement; however, everyone who now reports to him hates him. He is a very talented manager of work, but lacks charisma and needs...
Leadership Lessons from Katrina for Hurricane Sandy Survivors 9 Nov 2012 | 03:28 am
Hurricane Sandy, 30/10/12: Flooded Avenue C at East 6th Street in Manhattan’s East Village; Photo David Shankbone Three Leadership Lessons from Katrina to Help Hurricane Sandy Survivors By Office-Poli...
Millennial eye rollers are grumbling 20 Oct 2012 | 12:39 am
Dear Office-Politics, I have been asked to manage a few coworkers on an ongoing reporting project that is fairly low scale in the priority of our division. These coworkers are younger, newer, and stil...
Gossip gone wild: why being a gossip limits your career 25 Sep 2012 | 09:36 pm
"I made a comment about a coworker that I know I shouldn't have and now I think it's going to bite me in the butt. I noticed that one of my coworkers leaves for lunch everyday and then comes back and ...
CNN Publishes OfficePolitics.com Quiz! 2 Sep 2012 | 03:53 am
What a thrill! CNN.com asked Franke James, OfficePolitics.com founder, author and game designer, to create a quiz for their Global Office show. See screen shot and more details below… Franke created t...
The Role & Rewards of an Office Weasel 29 Aug 2012 | 08:05 am
By Office-Politics Guest Adviser: Andrew Hennigan Why the Office Weasel Plays a Key Role in Hierarchical Organizations People from the few societies that are not hierarchical — Netherlands and Scandin...
Nice Perfume. Must you bathe in it? 28 Aug 2012 | 11:06 pm
Dear Office-Politics, Nice Perfume, must you bathe in it? That is what I want to say to her but I won’t. I have this co-worker. She is a very nice woman. In fact, she is the one who trained me. She go...
Can you fight the bully and win? Read how one worker used a daily diary to fight the bully. 13 Aug 2012 | 04:08 am
The featured comment below wins a copy of the award-winning ethics game book, Dear Office-Politics by Franke James. “All I can say is that I was harrassed and bullied in the workplace by the Departmen...
