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Unit 4 Office Politics Office Politics ：Survival of the savvy By Barb McEwen Political savvy is a vital competence for any executive, but it’s not taught in leader-ship or grad school courses. In fact, the term “office politics” has received a bad rap. (Words like “Machiavellian” , “manipulative” and?computational” com to mind .) Tales of political sabotage, power plays and turf wars are part of any organization’s history. Nonetheless, political competence is the one skill everyone wishes to have more of - but no one talks about it. When you ask people how they achieve results with