The Office Survivor

How to become a better decision maker

Most mangers find decision making an inescapable task. Decision making is something that is made every moment in our lives, and most of the time we take responsibility on our actions. But when if comes to the office politics environment, this changes. staff members see the manager who takes the decision as the major person [...]

Using office politics to upgrade your salary – part 1

As an opposite to the compensation's articles which you can read all about it in previous articles , right here:

http://www.theofficesurvivor.com/2009/11/i-need-the-compansation-tactic-1/

http://www.theofficesurvivor.com/2009/12/office-politics-i-need-the-compensation-tactic-2/

http://www.theofficesurvivor.com/2009/12/i-need-the-compensation-%E2%80%93-tactic-3/

This article deals with the usage of the office politics in order to upgrade your salary. It's not a secret that the real job in the office (and it doesn't matter which office) [...]

How to become a manager

Let's assume that you work hard for years but no one really appreciates it. And let's just assume that you're responsible of a category that no one else can fill. Well, maybe it's time to become a manager.
In order to do so, there are a few things that you will have to do first:

Become lazy [...]

Social networking pitfalls -3 rules of precaution

This article is a sequel a previous article I have wrote:
http://www.theofficesurvivor.com/2009/11/using-social-networking-for-your-office-survival/
One of the buzz word today is networking, as you can find different type of social networking sites such as linkedin (www.linkedin.com), twitter (www.twitter.com) , facebook (www.facebook.com) or any other social networking that answer your needs. It's a known fact (almost) that everyone use networking [...]

Office Politics-Wars Guide to the new Employee

Searching a new office to work at , is a hard job. You always know from where you are coming, but you never know where you are going to be just like a blind date. As a new comer-the new employee in the office playground,  you aren't aware of the different  office-politics that exists and [...]

Office Politics -Getting Back on Errant Friend

This article is about vengeance. 
Two different backgrounds for this article are:

You and your best buddy are friends over 15 years now. You two came a long way:you shared some hard time, fights, fun, trips, and women. You name it. At one point in life we all made some changes. One of them can be relocation to [...]

Office Politics Example-Eric Mistake Survivor Samoa

One of the best episodes in Survivor Samoa was episode 8, when Eric Got voted out blind sided without using his hidden immunity idol. i will start by  describing  the flow of events and then analyse the "office politics" mistake, Eric did.
Episode 8 was was a major point because it was the first elimination for [...]

Going on a “blind date” with customers

I have read a nice article that define meeting with customers as a blind date, the translation is tend to be as much close to the original.
All credit are to Yaniv Zaid (linkedin page: http://il.linkedin.com/in/yanivzaid), owner and CEO of "The art of persuasion". Original article can be found at themarker: http://cafe.themarker.com/view.php?t=1382261 .
First meeting with a [...]