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Secrets to Winning at Office Politics: How to Achieve Your Goals and Increase Your Influence at Work
$15.99
For the longest time, office politics for me was like an incomprehensible and invisible current running throughout the company. Something slippery that I couldn't grasp--even though it permeated and affected everything. The result was many politically boneheaded moves on my part. I spent a lot of time frustrated when trying to get things done that involved other people. I was continually perplexed at how people showing little skill could gain huge amounts of destructive influence. And more perplexed at how these people could retain their influence even after creating failure after failure within an organization.

Office politics are a fact of life. It doesn't matter if you like them or not. It doesn't matter if you think politics are amoral or wrong. It doesn't matter if you think things should be different. Similar to the way gravity is a fact of life, whether you like it or not or think it should be different. The simple fact is that office politics exist and they affect you.

This book is a tightly written guide to understanding them and using them. As soon as I got into the book, a lot of things that had left me puzzled over the years became clear. And the landscape of politics, past and present, that previously seemed hidden came into plain view. The author is very adept at breaking everything down into easily understood concepts. I also like that the book has exercises to help you assess your political strengths and weaknesses and develop political skill in a variety of areas.

Some people seem to have an innate understanding of office politics. I didn't. Many don't. Those of us that don't have that understanding will find ourselves at the mercy of those that do. This book can put us on the right track to achieving the same level of political savvy.

If you want to learn: how politics work in an organization, how to limit damage done by destructive people with power and how to cultivate power and influence for yourself--read this book.

God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
$14.95
Jim Wallis has written a very important book that all Christians must wrestle with. Christians who have discounted or diminished the implications of the gospel for all of life need to hear what Wallis is saying. Rightly, Wallis reminds us that the Scriptures have much to say about taking care of the poor. Christians who have wanted to protect the integrity of the gospel message have sometimes been guilty of forgetting that the gospel speaks to all of life.

One ongoing frustration is the lack of clarity on what makes a Christian a Christian. Wallis may retort that he is not writing a systematic theology, but that would be a dodge. He is giving a strong critique of Christians' lackluster involvement with the poor. The least he could do is give us a clearer idea of what one must believe about Jesus. There are times when it seems that there is a merging of "people of faith" with Christian. Any generic "faith" cannot be properly called Christian.

This is a needed issue Christians must address, but Wallis confuses things rather than providing needed clarity.

Politics A Treatise on Government
$14.95
I found that Aristotle provided many brilliant insights into the political thinking, strategy, of leaders and the military. In many ways, it remains unsurpassed and it ought to be required reading in undergraduate classes on political strategy. On the downside, Aristotle referred to leaders of each city-state over decades, if not centuries, and, this made it difficult for at least this reader to fully appreciate the relevance and examples offered in this text. Brilliant and merits an A+.

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