The Nice Person's Guide to Office Politics: Get Credit, Get Heard, Get Promoted—Without Becoming Someone You Hate - Softcover

Saxena, Lakshay

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798189154201

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Someone with weaker work got the promotion you wanted — and you know it wasn't better. This is the moment that convinces smart, capable people that office politics is a dirty game rigged against anyone with integrity.

It isn't rigged. It's uninformed — and this book shows you how to fix that without becoming someone you'd hate.

The Nice Person's Guide to Office Politics is a direct, tactical playbook for early-career professionals who are excellent at their jobs and terrible at making sure anyone knows it. It draws a hard line between manipulation, which this book refuses to teach, and legitimate advocacy, which it teaches in detail — closing the gap between what you're worth and what your organization currently believes you're worth.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Map who actually makes decisions where you work — the five roles behind every real outcome
• Build genuine credit with the right people before you ever need to spend it
• Get an idea agreed to before the meeting where it's "decided"
• Describe your own work so it's remembered accurately, without sounding like you're bragging
• Ask your manager for scope, projects, and money — and actually get a yes
• Handle credit theft, sabotage, and being frozen out, proportionately
• Tell a hard situation worth fixing apart from a rigged one worth leaving

Every tactic in this book obeys one rule: nothing in here requires another person to be misinformed. That's what makes it safe to use at full speed, and it's the whole point.

If you've ever told yourself "my work speaks for itself" while watching someone else get ahead, this is the correction.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798189154201
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 94
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg