trust-me by cheerfulmonk
Office politics can often be seen as a group of tactics to get people to do what you want them to do. While some of the tactics can work, there is a more fundamental issue that can help your overall cause: your trustworthiness.
This sounds simple, but it is not. What, exactly, is trustworthiness? [...]
When you can’t trust your management team, knowledge workers talk to each other. Because they can.
When you can’t trust your management team, people look for every signal they can find and then interpret the signal in relation to the worst that can happen.
When you can’t trust your management team, you start looking at the meetings [...]
