Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company Success

If you don’t like office politics or playing the political game - this book is for you. It explains the why of jumping into the office politics arena and gives sound advice with copious examples. Ideally suited for middle managers who are trying to survive office politics.

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This book has a lot of interesting ideas, a lot of them I thought were overly obvious. This book is great if you are leaning to one of the extremes, either overly political or under political. A lot of the positive self talk and self promotion is something you learned or you should have learned as you rose through the ranks of your career....this also goes along with having good allies, and treating everyone objectively and fairly. Even treating those who do not have perceived power or influence in a good manner.So if you absolutely hate politics in the workplace, this book is for you. If you have already accepted politics as typical, and you are objectively using politics to your advantage and protecting yourself as appropriate, you're probably doing most of the things in this book already.I personally used to think politics were a waste of time when I first entered the career field. My point of view has drastically changed over the years, but when we all start out in a career field, I think we are a bit naive.To those of you who hate politics and/or may be new and the job market, this book will be immensely helpful.

Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company SuccessPeople are getting whacked by office politics all the time and they need to learn how to protect themselves -- and how to move ahead without sacrificing their soul. Survival of the Savvy has become the classic primer that I recommend to everyone -- and have given as gifts to my own children entering the work world. There is a wealth of wisdom in these pages:1. Analyzing your own political style and your colleagues2. Understanding the invisible power structure (and not just the org chart)3. Observing what people do (not just what they 'say')4. Finding harmony by bringing an employee's interests in line with the company's goals5. The need for verbal discipline (a surprising number of employees get tripped up on this one!)6. Monitoring your buzz (very important skill and similar to 360 degree executive interviews).I have seen their advice put to the test over and over again -- and it works. Survival of the Savvy teaches how you can be political while maintaining your integrity.

A Utilitarian Guide to Influence. A fitting title and subtitle.The section on self-talk was refreshing. Why include it? Read the book to discover for yourself. The notions of perception and projection are at the root of reframing politics.

Wow. Am I naive and clueless! At least until I read this book.This book has helped me so much, namely to understand than not everyone sees the world as I do--namely through the eyes of science. I am a scientist who worked within a political regulatory organization and not everyone I worked with was, well, like me. I just could not understand why they did things against what the science said and the reason they did this is because they were highly political while I was NOT. In contrast, they were not scientific. The harder I tried to pound my science down their throats, the more they kicked back and kicked me out.It did not help that I was self-righteous...If you are a truth seeker and think the truth should always prevail, and it should but it DOESN'T, then read this book to keep your sanity, develop productive strategies to make your point, and keep your job!

Useful book that describes work place politics and how to identify them for your survival. I take their suggestions with a grain of salt. As one reviewer pointed out some of their suggestions such as carrying around the Wall Street Journal to show business acumen may not work.However, negatives aside the book is useful for learning about and understanding office politics. Reading this book in conjunction with other books on the topic is helpful to give the reader different perspectives as to approaching office politics and surviving.

I bought this book based on all the positive feedback. E.g. "Read This Book If You Work Inside Any Organization", and so on. It just goes to show how useless amazon reviews are in general (read: ignore 5 star reviews).The basic premise of this book is dealing with company politics while maintaining a high morale ground. It goes into all the nasty political things that may or may not happen, and provides a huge amount of micro responses to specific gnarly situations.The book paints a very bleak picture of corporate politics. This is probably necessary to support it's other thesis: you need this book to survive. I seriously got depressed reading this book when I bought it before starting my current job. It makes it sound like the corporate political landscape is nothing short of a fall on war that requires extreme social cunning and wits, regardless of your ability to do your job.The only possible worth this book will have is if you work at a highly bureaucratic, "who you know, not what you know" type of environment. Rather than buying this book, I'd recommend looking for somewhere else to work. Successful companies will recognize people based on their ability to deliver - not who they sleep with.