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Summary: Primer on Business Politics
Review: Porter tells you about 100+ ways you can be killed off at work. Whether you act or get acted upon could determine when you eat (keep your job and get promoted) or get eaten (get stuck in a terminal job or lose your job). He shares the war strategies in the work environment comprised of surprises and dirty tricks fast-trackers use to get you out of the way to propel themselves to the top and hold their positions. Porter informs, shocks, and sometimes scares in his no-holds-barred, eye-opening, fast-paced, and sometimes chilling look at rising and falling in today's workplace. You may hate the realities of the true stories in Porter's book. Resist the temptation to judge. Learning what really goes on serves you whatever actions you choose to take. Ignorance just isn't smart. Here's one nugget: the likeable and loyal become more successful than the lucid and logical. Porter stresses getting in good with the right people as the first law of the workplace jungle. He also makes a good case for appearances and success attitudes, in some cases more important than real talent and hard work. Here's Porter on his concept of form, substance, and politics: "When you can look like a show horse, work like a workhorse, tap dance your way out of any situation, remember a milion jokes, play the got'cha game with the best of them, hire only winners, use foul language when you need to, and understand the meaning of a title, you're ready to move on to the more sophisticated applications of corporate politics."
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Summary: Mostly on how to evade responsibility
Review: The author mostly gives you techniques of evading responsibility.
How to buy time and/or spill the blame on others.
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Summary: Humor with deadly tactics
Review: The author writes with a sense of humor but you get the feeling that he is dead and deadly serious. Master Corporate Politicians are survivors...he is one, he tells you how to become one and tells you how to deal with someone who is one. As my business partner said, "These are the sort of things you really want to do to people but are afraid of the retribution!" Everyone will recognize the people the author describes and the situations that go with them. It really is a great book to have if you are trying to work your way up in the corporate world. However, I did notice that he changed jobs a lot and am not quite sure where he is in his career right now. But he is a survivor on the managerial level.
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Summary: Eat or be eaten
Review: This book has taught me not only how to handle boys at school but has taught be a different style of writting you do not see very often. The content is evdent in its findings and will help people in the bussiness world.
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Summary: The truth hurts
Review: This is one of those books you read and wonder, "People aren't really that sneaky and conniving... are they?" If you work in the corporate world and probably even if you don't, the answer is yes. Mr. Porter warns you how to recognize these people and their tactics, but more importantly, he helps you counter their moves without turning into one of them yourself.
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Summary: Best Book I have ever seen
Review: This is the best book on office politics I have ever seen. The writer talks very straight and everything seems to stem from his own personal experience. Every paragraph in the book you can relate to your own personal experience. The suggestions in this book are invaluable.
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Summary: Save your money!
Review: Unless you are a complete idiot, you already know everything this book has to offer. If you have spent any time at all in the corporate environment, this is all day-to-day stuff here. Couldn't be more boring and obvious. Purchase this book only if you are interested in reading stories from the authors personal work history as he tries to relate it to the so called "tactics" in the book. Complete waste.
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Summary: Best Book I have ever seen
Review: Unlike any other management book, this one is real dirty. Depends on how you read it, this book contains many dirty tricks. We don't necessary need to follow them, we may on the good side being aware of these tricks. On the other hand, some of the points are actually postive and motivating (like to be more sociable, try work overtime, etc) I hope you are not looking for tricks for revenge (which you will), but to read it using a clear and positive and preventive mind.
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Summary: A practical management book
Review: Unlike any other management book, this one is real dirty. Depends on how you read it, this book contains many dirty tricks. We don't necessary need to follow them, we may on the good side being aware of these tricks. On the other hand, some of the points are actually postive and motivating (like to be more sociable, try work overtime, etc) I hope you are not looking for tricks for revenge (which you will), but to read it using a clear and positive and preventive mind.
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Summary: Swim with the sharks and eat them alive
Review: _Eat or Be Eaten_ is morbidly fascinating reading for people who don't have to climb the corporate ziggurat. The author details his experiences with different tactics of office politics. Although he is obviously highly disciplined and determined, with expertise out the ears and an incredible capacity for work, he does not make himself the hero of his own battles. He honestly relates his own defeats and blunders, explaining how some of the tactics in his book were used on him, or how he mis-used them. Tellingly, there are rationalizations of some hardball tactics that almost sound like the stirrings of a guilty conscience. In one instance, he sabotages a colleague's career to save his own, and spends some ink justifying it. But such moments quickly give way to a resumption of office tactics and career strategies. A foot soldier's eye view of the corporate battlefield...
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