Strategic Discernment: Building Relationships, Overcoming Politics, and Finding Career Success

Strategic Discernment: Building Relationships, Overcoming Politics, and Finding Career Success teaches how to develop and apply skills of social interaction that will advance your ability to perform and chance to succeed in the workplace. The tactics described in Strategic Discernment will enable you in your career and provide you greater security for your life. Tactics such as political maneuvering, influencing career decision makers, and developing a corporate identity are interwoven into this narrative account of a high-powered CEO delivering the wisdom of experience and corporate know-how to a young up-and-coming executive in the making. Examples of dealing with confrontational people, handling multiple bosses, and leading in a crisis are just a few of the situations presented. Strategies based on language sculpting, solution discovery, respect, and empathy gain new clarity throughout the book; making it easy for the reader to quickly understand the application of these principles to actual office relationships. Office politics has always been and always will be a part of the workplace. Politics is the language of social interaction in a hierarchal structure of people. Strategic Discernment will describe how you can overcome the negative consequences of a political or confrontational environment. When an individual succeeds more in his or her career versus his or her peer, it is almost certainly because he or she knows a little bit about strategic discernment. Using discernment takes certain skills that can be learned, but the application of those skills in the right situations, at the right time, and with the right people is a strategy. Strategic Discernment has the formula to build constructive relationships and overcome political conflict that will empower you to achieve success and accelerate your career.