Office politics sends will on vacation

On last Thursday, I was having a word with the Asia Pac Head of a successful company.

Our discussions strolled the sticky aisles of office politics.

Why is it so widespread across corporate?

Our boots went into the history first.

The original definition of the word "politics" was about its ability to influence community.
Meaning that, (a) every human interacts with other humans, and (b) in doing so, influences each other.

The quality of influence is always towards a goal.
The goal is either self-serving or serving a community or a beautiful combination of both.
It would be visible in interactions/influence, whether the influencer (any human) is operating from centers of half-knowledge, ego, jealousy, unbridled desire, insecurity on one hand or from compassion, friendliness, joy, discretion on the other hand.
Coming back to corporate.
Corporate is its "collective "will"" vs its "collective won't".

Every employee consistently interacts with some or the other employee(s)

Quality of influence in these interactions could be either to breed togetherness for achieving organization goals,

or it could be to breed togetherness for suspending/ignoring/postponing organization goals or warring personal goals.
The "collective will"  or "collective won't" of the employees is influenced by these interactions.
Hence office politics is about taking the "will" on vacation rather than employing it to achieve corporate goals.
When "will" is on vacation, "won't" works very hard.

Whether corporate will achieve its target or won't, depends completely on its political wind.
Mind-body-soul interventions reduce the office-politics' tailwind. Instills meaning-purpose and togetherness.

Happy Politics.

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