Confronting Company Politics

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Is Company Politics Strangling Your Business, and You With It?....Pages 1-13
Can Personal Responsibility be a ‘Detachable Burden’?....Pages 14-21
Why Play Politics and Why Acquiesce?....Pages 22-31
Taking Action in a Hostile Environment....Pages 32-46
Am I an Existentialist?....Pages 47-59
If Freedom of Choice is Only ‘an Illusion’, why Encourage Autonomy?....Pages 60-69
Confronting the Cycle of Group Dynamics and Company Politics....Pages 70-88
How does Company Politics Start?....Pages 89-106
The Phenomenological Approach and Action....Pages 107-112
We Hypnotise Ourselves with Our Own Language....Pages 113-122
Confronting Politics — The Stress of Inaction — The Anxiety of Action....Pages 123-128
The Difference between Self-Actualising and Self-Image Actualising....Pages 129-134
The Conflict is Within, not Without....Pages 135-146
So Your Indecision is Final?....Pages 147-157
How do I do it?....Pages 158-171
Back Matter....Pages 172-175