Comments on: Avoid the office politics trap. https://berkonomics.com/?p=1665&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=avoid-the-office-politics-trap Dave Berkus' business insights Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:06:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Harry Keller https://berkonomics.com/?p=1665&cpage=1#comment-7570 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:06:57 +0000 https://berkonomics.com/?p=1665#comment-7570 In larger companies, avoid interdepartmental sniping. If you’re in engineering, don’t call the marketing people names — you’ve heard them all. And vice versa.

Your job is to bridge the gap between all of the other departments and yours. Get to know people in marketing, finance, engineering, research, law, and sales. You’ll find that they are doing their best for the company you all work for and will do it better if you and your coworkers don’t snipe at them behind their backs.

Everyone would like to think they work in the “best” department, but that’s just not so. In a healthy company, they’re all equal.

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