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time each one is a competitor to each other because not everyone will be promoted or stay with the firm why they are needed by managers all businesses small and big will involve a high degree of ambiguity and uncertainty this makes it impossible for anyone to have the full facts of a situation understand what is going on at any given time or predict the outcome of any action taken managers depend on others and are required to use power and politics to influence and manipulate others central to their work so that an outcome they need can be achieved it is hard for just one man woman to undertake all the operations of the business depending on others through direct orders is not as effective because people feel pushed to do their work having people work because they actually want to and enjoy their work is much more productive and effective managers should also engage in micro politics to make sure that employees have a balanced competition and co operation with each other in order for productive and cooperative work to be achieved people who are responsible and valuable in decreasing uncertainties in a business will be well placed the next time a promotion comes up or a smart new office becomes available senior managers will listen to them and their influence and their likely further succeeding in micro political activity will be enhanced when dealing with a strategic uncertainty they are well placed for achieving such successes advance their power and gain further rewards in the future on the other hand uncertainties change all the time thus people responsible for them change too and so does their place in the business also such people may be replaced by other people who are equally able to handle uncertain situations as a result individuals currently in power may not continue to be in the future for this reason people will not pursue power just for obtaining immediate resources like money status and general comforts of life but also to put themselves in a position whereby they will be able to obtain whatever they want in the future to have power is the potential to do better in the future methods or tactics for micro political success doing deals and making exchanges strategic exchanges minor or major that play a part in advancing your career or life strategy seeking patron establishing relationships with more powerful people making alliances team up with selected colleagues conspiring exploit certain positions you may have mobilizing groups and assuming informal leadership roles making strategic retreats taking a step backwards if identifying an immediate advantage potentially comprising long term success using charm and skills of persuasion efforts to repair relationships networking talent spotting selective recruitment and adopting proteges bringing talented people with you gathering information that may actually or potentially be used against a rival or otherwise to advance one s interests such methods when used carefully and with good purposes will help assure that employees will give the appropriate outcome that a manager wants from them also good ethics should be taken in mind when trying to perform these methods since bad ethics might cause the business to create a bad name and future in conclusion the main thing to consider is that you need to be able to control people in your business in order for it to be a success you will highly depend on other people so that business operations will be completed if you cannot control what employees offer to your business it will be hard for your business to grow and succeed if not fail for this reason it is important to know how to control your employees and the best approach will be through micro politics to encourage people rather than giving direct orders which may even slow the performance of employees posted by gagap at 11 07 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest machiavellian tactics hidden persuasion in business and politics today just over fifty years ago vance packard provoked worldwide alarm when he published the hidden persuaders a book which exposed the ruthless way in which advertisers were using covert psychological techniques to manipulate our thoughts fears and purchasing decisions the book sold over a million copies and for a while made the public aware of its vulnerability to the clandestine use of subliminal stimulation and freudian depth psychology the hue and cry that packard caused has long since abated but we re still being bombarded every day by the same coercive techniques these are being subtly and incessantly applied not only by advertisers but also by politicians newspapers press agents slogan writers spin doctors and public relations consultants our subconscious minds are under constant attack bombarded with feel good stimuli designed to encourage us to buy products we don t need won t use and often can t afford this of course is nothing new many regard niccolo machiavelli as the founding father of political thought control he was the strategic adviser to the florentine republic in the early sixteenth century and was one of the first to compile a written guide for rulers on the acquisition and deployment of political power his book the prince circulated privately during his lifetime and was only published after his death because it was thought that its advice on the use of cunning deceit and guile was far too dangerous to fall into dissident hands it would be best to be both loved and feared is one of the instructions he offers would be rulers but since the two rarely come together anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved the book was banned by the catholic church who added it to its index liborum prohibitorum while no doubt keeping several copies in the vatican library for the guidance of senior members of the all powerful roman curia it became one of the bibles of the founding fathers of the american colonies john adams finding its advice invaluable particularly the practical guidance it gives on the centralization of power and the control of rebel factions many writers have developed the art of machiavellian cunning one of the earliest was the spaniard balthasar gracian who wrote the art of worldly wisdom which was published in 1637 and widely distributed throughout europe the book offers three hundred tips on how to achieve personal and public success much of this wise advice relates to personal life style change and covers the same ground as the vast genre of contemporary self help manuals but like machiavelli gracian also provides suggestions for manipulating people here for instance are four of his tips taken at random and suitably paraphrased axiom 5 aim to make people dependent on you the astute person prefers to have people needing them than thanking them keep their hope alive without entirely satisfying it for then you ll preserve their dependency axiom 7 avoid surpassing your superiors all victories generate hate and to provoke such feelings in your seniors is foolish and self destructive axiom 17 vary your pattern of behaviour otherwise your rivals will be able to anticipate your course of action and frustrate your plans it s easy to kill a bird that follows a straight course not so one that twists and turns and axiom 77 be all things to all men observe and mimic their moods and mannerisms follow their lead be learned with the learned and saintly with the saintly this is the way to gain their sympathy and support these are the techniques which politicians employ today usually with the help of spin doctors trained in the art of psychological persuasion and machiavellian cunning it s no coincidence that the founding father of american pr edward l bernays was the nephew of sigmund freud one of his first tasks when he set up in practice was to give the machiavellian art a more benign public face this he did with great success encouraging the man in the street to think in terms of public relations rather than propaganda but despite these attempts at rebranding the work of the modern spin doctors is still largely devoid of ethical standards this was shown on 9 11 the day when the twin towers of new york s trade centre were raised to the ground by al qaeda terrorists seizing the opportunity this presented jo moore one of the uk government s press officers sent a message to her political chiefs telling them it s a good day to bury bad news her actual words were slightly different but equally callous and unprincipled these mind benders are hell bent on pulling the wool over our eyes they re offering us not facts but romantic fictions their power is immense their presence all pervasive in washington dc today there are over seventeen thousand lobbyists promoting the interests of pressure groups ranging from those of large pharmaceutical companies to anti abortion campaigners and the national rifle association which wants to ensure that every american has the right to carry a gun last year these movers and shakers received nearly 3 5 billion in funds which doesn t include the amount they paid directly into the campaign accounts of federal candidates unless we re vigilant we ll be the victims of constant subliminal manipulation our hard won freedom will be lost the moment we let others dictate our thoughts and purchasing decisions posted by gagap at 10 08 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest courts and politics there is supposed to be a separation but i cannot see it anymore there are three branches of our government in the united states of america and the supreme court is the law of the land and there is supposed to be a separation between the other branches of government legislative executive unfortunately this supreme court has become far too political and i fear they are leaning us towards socialist tendencies and many of the cases they decide to take and the decisions they render seem to coincide far too often political events and the timing makes it all suspect okay so you probably want me to give you a couple of examples because perhaps you are a liberal leaning socialist and you want to make sure that whatever i say comes with examples so you can blow it out of proportion take my words out of context and to defeat my premise or theory the only problem is you re not smart enough to do that because if you believe in socialist societies and that very fact well it proves that you are lacking in iq level in my opinion or you really don t care about the united states of america in my opinion which is cya so you can t sue me below are two examples they are very recent examples gay marriage ban was overturned just before president obama is scheduled to be in los angeles for a fundraiser arizona immigration law parts and clauses ruled unconstitutional day before protests and it was supposed to go into effect still these are only two examples and it is occurring more and more often worse i hereby charge the us supreme court with abandoning their sworn duty to uphold the us constitution and therefore have come to the conclusion that their administering of the law of the land has been compromised what does this mean it means that there is no longer justice in the united states of america it has been corrupted now then i love my country or obviously i wouldn t be writing this but when the leadership of this nation is unfit to lead and they are allowed to nominate members to the supreme court and the legislative branch of our government approves those nominations we find that we have one political party which has infiltrated all three branches of government and we no longer have checks and balances the other problem is government is moving too fast and when the supreme court is in cahoots with a fast moving socialist style political push in our government we have a problem that we should all be concerned about now then one could say that everything is fine but that wouldn t be the reality and the further this goes down the road without the pendulum swinging the other way the harder it is going to be to fix in the future to keep our nation safe and sane further if we are going to run our country more like a straight democracy than the republic that it is and if we are going to continually elect populist like presidents then eventually our country will be run by mob rule and anytime we get a large group of people protesting in the streets the supreme court will do whatever it takes to calm them down along with all the politicians this is a slippery slope that we are going down and if we continue down this path we will end up like many of the countries in europe and last time i checked they weren t doing so well the united states of america is a great country because it has a representative government and yet now we find that our politicians are willing to and are obliging the mass media which incites the mobs and if our supreme court is willing to do the same then no one is safe nor can the citizenry businesses or future generations know what will happen next such uncertainty in society and civilization in economics and industry or in politics and our court system cannot bring forth the desired results for the continuation of such a great nation indeed i see a storm on the horizon one which no one is prepared for and one which our government is either afraid of or will not take the necessary steps to protect the american people rather making the potential eventuality much worse is this where freedom goes astray are we living in a society which is doomed to repeat even when the obvious is right before our eyes and who are these characters on stage these people we call leaders these podium pushing politicians who claim they are the answer they are the problem not the answer please consider all this posted by gagap at 10 08 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest biblical law and political freedom on sunday evening march 21 2010 the house of representatives voted to accept the national health care bill passed by the senate late last year once the legislation was signed by the president it became the law of the land this is another step in the effort to impose the religion of man on the united states and to marginalize christianity don t be fooled it is not a political battle that is raging but a spiritual battle it is a battle of worldviews concerning the nature of salvation on one hand we have the belief that salvation comes about through law on the other hand we have the truth that salvation is by grace alone it is the nature of anti god anti christian government to seek to replace salvation in christ with salvation by law this describes our current circumstance and we need to understand what is happening if we hope to turn the tide in imperial rome the health of the people was the highest law this is because a government that sees human reason as the highest auth...