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Let’s talk about Office Politics
This is clearly our most favorite aspect of office life to complain about. It’s hard to imagine a normal person expressing any liking for all the intrigues, gossips and “pointless” conversations filled...
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Office Politics, Part 1: How to gossip correctly
In my previous post I did my best to present the concept of Legitimate Office Politics, while stressing the importance of doing it properly. Now let’s deal with one of its most basic aspects –...
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Office Politics, Part 2: What’s your Status?
After discussing the basic properties of Office Politics and the importance of gossiping correctly in order to succeed at it, I would like to discuss the concept of Social Status. If gossip is one of...
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Office Politics, Part 3: Hard Power vs. Soft Power
After my previous posts on Office Politics I got some very interesting reactions from readers. Many of them included the same question: How to be good at Office Politics without getting into...
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Manager’s Expertise: what skills should we know?
Theoretically, an Expert is someone who mastered all the needed skills of his or her domain. So, basically, an Expert Manager is someone who mastered all the skills of Management. But what are those...
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Can Managers ask questions?
You can sometimes hear people complain about their Managers asking too much questions. It somehow seems to them that as Managers are supposed to be experts on what’s going on in the department, they...
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More on Delegation: Micro-management and “Hands-On” Management Style
After talking to people about my post on Delegation I decided to expand the discussion to other related issues in Management that everybody knows about, but the general understanding remains vague,...
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“Can a Non-Expert manage Experts?”– From Ask Anya mails
Following post : An Eternal Argument: Can a non-Expert manage Experts? “I read your post carefully and I have to say that I completely disagree. In my experience, any attempt to manage IT developers...
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A Happy New Year present for my readers: my Top 5 Favorite Movies for Managers
As Season Greetings are almost upon us and Anyworksmart will traditionally go into well-deserved recess for the next month, I decided to finish the year with something light yet meaningful in order to...
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Judging people: External vs. Internal
Happy New Year, everybody! AnyaWorkSmart is back online and will continue with discussion of every aspect of Management that can be improved by fighting Biases. I decided that the first post of the...
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