How to deal with office politics

It's such a frequently asked question, where people are struggling to deal with office politics, they feel like they are pressured, they are being consumed. All the politics that are happening in the office is toxic, it's creating stress in their lives, and it's creating pressure, it's creating anxiety and they don't know how to deal with it. 

Here is how people could deal with office politics. 

If your work is full of tension, what can you do?

The problem is not with the work, the problem is not with life, the problem is not with the world in which you live, the problem is just that you have not done the necessary things for this one to flow through this effortlessly, beautifully. The necessary work has not been done and we are just hoping that it just happens by accident, but it doesn't happen by accident. A lot of people in the world think the USA is heaven, but people who live here don't think so at all. So, have you created the necessary mechanism, have you created the necessary system, and have you created the necessary ingredients within you to make this like the fragrance of jasmine, on a spring breeze and not at all, if it's torn, we must pluck the thing out.

Here Sadhguru quotes:-

"Intelligent ones wonder, idiots are dead sure"

Devotion in the Corporate World

Everyone in this corporate world has their agendas. Don't waste your time in devotion, you must explore other ways. Devotion means taking your emotion to the highest pitch, you have various kinds of emotions. Devotion is held as the highest form of emotion. Because it's the least entangling. It's liberating. Devotees are insane people, they are not reasonable people as far as the world is concerned. They are very beautiful people at the heart but they don't belong to the logical dimensions of life. Devotion is one of the quickest ways to attain but you won't fit into normal, social, and other situations. It's not possible.

If you want to fit into normal situations, your family, and social situations, and still pursue spirituality.

It's not that devotion is completely absent in you. There is a part of you, your emotions are there so naturally, a certain amount of devotion happens here and there. But you can't choose it as a path. Because you still want life to happen the way you want it. If you want life to happen the way you want it, you should just learn to use your body and mind the way you want it. 

Other ways to devote yourself to peace in the office politics 

•You can attain it through intelligence • You can also attain it through your physical actions 

• You can also attain it by transforming your inner energies. 

But you are not just any one of them, you are a combination. Hence, we are choosing a combination of these things, so that without disturbing the external realities, you can still evolve.

If you want to preserve the external and still evolve, then naturally some compromises are not bothered by what happens to your corporate world 

You go slowly. You are not bothered about what happens to your corporate world, or your husband, or wife or child, or anything. You just want to grow, then it's very quick. You want to preserve this also, but you want something else, to happen, that's why we are going slowly. 

With different people, we work in. different ways

Some people are not concerned about all these things. With them, we work differently. Now you are people who want to preserve the external situation, but still, you want an internal possibility. So we are going slowly on a combination of these things, not putting anything on a high pitch. Everything trying to raise to the next level of experience. Not the ultimate. We are just seeing, how to push you to the next level of experience.

Coming to the facts 

Survival tips for office politics 

•Analyze the Organization Chart.      Office politics often circumvent the formal organizational structure. …

•Understand the Informal Network.…

•Build Connections. ...

•Develop Your "People Skills" …

•Make the Most of Your Network. ...

•Be Brave – but Not Naive. ...

•Neutralise Negative Politics.

How to Win at Office Politics Without Selling Your Soul

You’d like to think you can succeed in the workplace purely on your merits. In some offices, you can, but in many others, you must know how to play the game.

You’ve probably heard it said that to succeed in some careers, you have to “play the game.” In other words, you have to learn to deal with office politics. While that may be true to an extent, it doesn’t mean you have to put aside your morals and ethics and play dirty to climb the corporate ladder. 

How to be an ethical role model in a corporate world 

Because doing the right thing matters.

Eighty-three percent of respondents believe their companies would make better decisions if they followed the Golden Rule, and 59% think they’d be more successful at big challenges if their leadership demonstrated more moral authority. 

Conclusion 

To remove office politics, these steps can be taken:-

•Get real. Encourage people to engage in and contribute to important discussions--and then actually let them do it. ...

•Give clear direction. Be sure you have a goal--and that you've communicated it clearly to everyone involved. ...

•Veto power plays. ...

•Reject negative politics on the spot.