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Political Blunders
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Indifference to your organization’s politics could hurt your advancement prospects. For starters, you risk cutting yourself off from the company grapevine. If a downsizing or merger is on the horizon, chances are that most of your team members will get wind of it a month or two before it’s officially announced. If you’re lucky, you’ll get the bad news from someone who works closely with you. And your subordinates will have a head start on new jobs.
A major career blunder many technical people make is not building strong relationships at their companies. Most people gravitate to vocations that fit their personalities, observes John Agno, president of executive coaching firm Signature Inc. in Ann Arbor, Mich.
“For technical people, the vocation of choice tends to be working with ‘things’ rather than working with ‘people.’”
Whether you’re a CIO, project manager or technical business analyst, it is as important to learn about your business and improve your interpersonal skills as it is to develop killer technical solutions, Agno argues. “The higher up you go in an organization’s hierarchy, the more the value of your technical skills declines while the value of your interpersonal skills increases.”
Agno says success is powered by three things: know-…
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