Savvy

by Jane Clarke, Maggie Ollerenshaw (Reader)

Dealing with office politics, conflict, and difficult people at work without compromising your values and integrity, can be tricky. With case studies and examples, Savvy will help you understand colleagues' behaviour and power dynamics at work, and learn how to negotiate them successfully. Practical and insightful, Savvy will enable you to master the necessary skills to deal with difficult situations. It includes step-by-step advice on how to build a network, develop the right mind-set, handle conflict, manage your boss, influence others and deal with a bully. Savvy is the essential office survival guide that will help you to boost your career and ensure your professional success. Jane Clarke is a director at business psychology consultancy Nicholson McBride. She has worked in consulting for over 20 years and her clients include London Business School, UBS, J Walter Thompson and Sainsbury's. She has written articles for the Financial Times and the Guardian , appeared on BBC Business Breakfast and written a weekly column on office politics for the Independent . Jane is also the author of Office Politics , Wired Working , and Resilience .

Genres: Nonfiction, Business, Audiobook, Personal Development

MP3 CD

First published May 3, 2012

Reviews

[سعد الدوسري · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn't enjoy it at all. I don't recommend it even for the poorly politically-cultured like me.

[Anna · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very shallow, full of things obvious even for not-at-all-savvy and not useful in the least. I'm glad I borrowed it instead of buying.

[Assad · Rating 1 out of 5]

Too much theory than opposed to practical advices.

[Frida Rodelo · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are much better books on the subject. I did not found this one to be particularly helpful on any topic.

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good info on dealing with work politics and life relationships.

[Carrie Zaragoza · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoying this book but the spell checker does not appear to have been used throughout.

[Crystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful. I could have used this book in 2007! Scarred, but smarter. LOL.

[Lama Kabbani · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy quick read...although found a lot of spelling mistakes!!!

[A · Rating 4 out of 5]

Have had the pleasure of working with most of the corporate psychopaths described down to the T

[Ibraheem Saud]

Nice for biggeners to understand how things work in the office. However, you have to learn more practical things to gain the edge in the work place.

I believe these concepts are not a theory to know. Its more like a set of skills that you either have or you don't.