Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations Reprint Edition

First read this book when I was in business school and I continue to refer to it today. It is the best book out there for understanding the power dynamics within corporations. If you find corporate politics frustrating and painful, this book helps you look at internal situations scientifically and unemotionally and respond in kind.

the book was exactly what my daughter was looking for

Some well explained examples and a logical flowing presentation.Good depth in the explanations.Although examples are dated/historical the applicability remains (and the history makes for interesting reading)

Easy to read and understand. Very useful for every day life

Love it

Awesomely great

This is a great book and I am glad I ordered it.

This is very like Machiavelli‘s work, but longer and more focused on business. After seeing organizations destroyed by people obsessed with gaining personal power at the expense of the success of the business, I can’t agree that power of that kind is necessary to succeed. Certain to Win (by Chet Richards) takes the opposite approach based on Maneuver Warfare principles, and focuses on teamwork, trust, and shared goals, and in my experience it’s a far more successful approach. I do agree that a blunt look at how people gain power is useful, but I would have liked to see a lot more discussion of the pitfalls, and less conviction that personal power is a worthy goal.