I am Autistic and a paper that I am working on involves a “political mindset” to solve a problem. I am seeing ways to survive office politics but I am not sure ultimately what it is. Please help.
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Office politics comes in many forms and are based on many quite rational motivations — most commonly regarding who should be blamed when things don’t go perfectly. There is value in not taking all the blame that is not toxic.
Supervisors who are competent at office politics are very good at ensuring others take MORE blame or an equal amount and frame a failing so that the group with the most power takes the blame first.
This ultimately allows multiple groups to share blame and for all the groups to move forward in fixing the problem — rather than handing the task to a single organization.
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