Gust The Tale Wind Of Office Politics Book Review

GUST: The “Tale” Wind of Office Politics Book Review This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories Imagine you were given the task of writing a 120-page book on office politics that was instructional, interesting, and entertaining. I don’t know about you, but I’d fail. Office politics is a tough subject to write about because every office, set of coworkers, and corporate culture is different. But, it’s an important subject for Cubicle Warriors to understand. Consequently, it was with some trepidation that I ordered Timothy L. Johnson’s book GUST: The “Tale” Wind of Office Politics. You’d see the title and either blow it off (so to speak!) as something that would make no sense because every office, team, and corporate culture is different, or, would think the book would simply have a bunch of platitudes about how to get along with a team or manage through a bad manager. Well, I couldn’t put the book down. It was that good. So far beyond my expectations that I haven’t done this review here on the blog simply because I want to give the book its due. And I finished it over Memorial Day weekend, almost a month ago as I write this. Of course, I got to read it again in the meantime! Here’s the deal: Timothy puts forth a universal model for understanding how people work in an office. I could have applied this model in any of the companies that I have worked for in my career. Wish I had â€" it would have saved me a bunch of “experience” lessons to boot. In addition to a “universal model” to understand office politics, Timothy presents the information in a realistic story surrounding a project gone bad. Our heroine must help the team work through the politics of the corporation to have a successful product launch in a pressure packed situation. The fable is good story telling, crisp in presentation, and ties up all the loose ends presented during the story. The fable is a great way to present theory in an informative, entertaining way that will help you remember the key points of information. But, the book is not just a story. Timothy then takes the the back of the book, presents the “behind the scenes” theory surrounding the characters and their motivations. Plus, provides you with useful tools for working through your individual political challenge so that you can use the principles for managing office politics to get your stuff done. Office politics is the 800-pound gorilla sitting in the meeting room. We all know that politics are there, we talk about it in the quiet sanctity of our cubes, but few of us have a constructive way to evaluate the situation and be able to take action in a way that will help us get things done. GUST: The “Tale” Wind of Office Politics gives us that constructive way to evaluate what is going on with the politics that we’re having such a hard time dealing with in our everyday positions. Rating: 5 of 5 Cubes, based upon original thinking of a tough subject presented in a manner that will help all knowledge workers. Nice going, Timothy!   […] on Carpe Factum (Seize the Accomplishment!). He writes some pretty good books too, especially “GUST: The ‘Tale’ Wind of Office Politics” â€" one of the few books out there that offers an approach to understanding and working with […] Reply […] If you are currently living with office politics, and want to figure out how to weather them, pick up a copy of GUST. Check out Scot Herrick’s review here. […] Reply Scot â€" thanks for the thorough analysis of the book. I’m humbled by the level of thought and effort you put into the review. It’s been great getting to know you better through our blogs. Carpe Factum! Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.