About

I started my career with no interest in politics, the power struggles for promotions and climbing the corporate ladder. I figured that I would let other people play the politics game. In typical (former) engineer fashion, I was more focused on solving cool, interesting problems. But after being scapegoated by a former boss and fired less than two weeks before Christmas, I realized that everyone is always involved in politics.

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The only choice is whether you participate, or let someone else make the decisions for you.

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So to help me understand organizational politics, I spent decades studying national and international politics. As I dug in more, it was amazing how much corporations act like mini sovereign nations. Everything that has happened in national politics has also happened in corporate politics. And everything that happens in the corporate world also has an equivalent in national politics.

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That said, my goal was not to learn how to play the political game, but to prevent politics from ruining people's lives. I still had little interest in being a politician, but I knew there had to be a better way. Over the years I've found and created many techniques for how to solve tough problems, build coalitions, please customers, build resilient organizations, and make people's lives happier.

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Lately, what I’ve been doing is taking everything I learned about politics inside large multi-national organizations and testing it in local politics… and so far it’s working. it's not easy, but it's working.

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