Workplace Politics
We’ve looked at the intricacies of handling information. However, the information that you handle is just a small subset of all of the information that is flowing around the company at any given time.
The word politics is defined by Wikipedia as the way that people living in groups make decisions. Building software is all about making decisions: what to build, how to build it, who should build it, how to market it and sell it, and also what not to build as a result.
However, the word politics itself probably doesn’t make you think of a political scientist observing behaviors in a local community. Instead, I assume you think of campaign trails, elections, and political parties. We are united and divided by differing ideologies. ...
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