Archive for December, 2009

Office Survivor Picking Size matter.

Office Survivor Picking Size matter.

A major issue con­cern office pol­i­tics, is whether “inter­nal pol­i­tics” is a prob­lem in orga­ni­za­tions. As a  Deriv­a­tive , another ques­tion arises: Are employ­ees  use the work­place for their own  per­sonal  ben­e­fit  or does they are moti­vated first to the ben­e­fits of the orga­ni­za­tion. Before we present our method, lets start with a com­mon example […]

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Overqualified and office survivor

Overqualified and office survivor

Office, the final fron­tier… your sec­ond home, but still from time to time you find your­self won­der­ing what if…? Well this arti­cle is just for you, you find out it’s time to seek a bet­ter new 2nd home, as your cur­rent work holds you and doesn’t allow you to advance in your sur­vival path of […]

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Company’s meeting – a waste of time or a recipe for success

Company’s meeting – a waste of time or a recipe for success

Before I’ll start I want to give credit to the orig­i­nal author of the pub­lisher, as I only know it was pub­lished by “Padeh con­sult­ing and coach­ing” (http://www.padeh.co.il/) ynet site (http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3814836,00.html) – I tried to trans­late it as much as I can and make it less heav­ier but again, all cred­its are for “Padeh consulting […]

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Office Survivor Mind Character traits short address

Office Survivor Mind Character traits short address

The Orga­ni­za­tion Today,requires from any director/manager (at var­i­ous lev­els) the   respon­si­bil­ity to orga­nize the work process and deci­sion mak­ing to opti­mally way reduce costs and max­i­mize the prof­its. There­fore, we are in “per­ma­nent war”- the orga­ni­za­tion is mon­i­tor­ing and inspect­ing  our man­age­ment ability’s every moment To sur­vive in the orga­ni­za­tion there are sev­eral important […]

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Learning from failure

Learning from failure

Suc­cess always holds an ele­ment of luck and a lit­tle help of ungrudg­ing– there­fore it’s very easy to learn from them, while fail­ure on the other hand means you have to learn from expe­ri­ence; requires to “reverse engi­neer­ing ” of the politic sce­nario you and the other play­ers were,to gen­er­ate a value from it – […]

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Enhance your office politics ability

Enhance your office politics ability

Writ­ing about office sur­vival and pol­i­tics, made me look­ing for prac­tice guide. after Google it, i found this  nice arti­cle about office politics.Reading it, the author men­tion that office pol­i­tics is prac­tice. Its some­times also called “play­ing the game”. First, the author  explain that we come to work as “free-agent mode”.The rea­son to come to work […]

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Using office politics to pick a side

Using office politics to pick a side

Dur­ing our every day work we deal with con­flicts and pick­ing sides. I’m not going to write about how to pick side in an argu­ment as this isn’t the pur­pose of the arti­cle, the arti­cle deals with pick­ing what is bet­ter for your sur­vival in the office and what will con­tribute to your sur­vival. As […]

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Office Survivor Desicion making– Dont get stuck in the middle-lesson 1

Office Survivor Desicion making– Dont get stuck in the middle-lesson 1

We make decision’s every moment in the day. Deci­sion mak­ing is the biggest issue for mankind. Unlike the ani­mal world, were there are lim­ited options, the human can have unlim­ited ones. Then we reduce the options and limit them to 3–4,and make the Deci­sion. This action goes in every part of our life:marriage,office,driving,investments,chess,poker.… The focus […]

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