Game-playing political

It sets out different approaches you can take to pursuing your purposes within an organization and discusses how you might avoid political game-playing. Principles of positive politics and managing with integrity are discussed. 

As project leaders they can be most effective in securing cooperation and resources. They are usually good negotiators. The risk is that they use their personal power for their own ends rather than the common good - that they play political games. 

There was no real meeting of minds at Potsdam. It is small wonder that no sooner was the ink dry on the Potsdam agreement than the East and the West began playing the old game of power politics, paying only such attention to the actual provisions of the Potsdam agreement as seemed in their own best interests at the time. 

Berne, Eric. 1964. Games People Play The Psychology of Human Relationships. Harmondsworth Penguim Black, Jeremy. 2005. The Politics of James Bond From Fleming s Novels to The Big Screen. Lincoln University of Nebraksa Press. 

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