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Tables of Contents for Work Would Be Great If It Weren't for the People
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Office Politics: An Introduction (Including the Evil Twin and a Self-Test)
xi
This Conld Be the Start of Something Big (The New Job, the New Friend, the New Company, the New Lover...)
3
22
A New Kid in Town
5
4
Pin the Tail on the Donkey
9
2
Politics in the Time of Cholera
11
3
You've Got to Have Friends...
14
4
Zipper Problems I
18
4
Zipper Problems II
22
3
The way Yon Do the Things Yon Do (Handling the Money, the Memos, the Truth, the Clock...)
25
34
Being There
27
3
Don't Swing at Every Pitch
30
3
Feeding the Hand that Bites You
33
4
How to Suck Up
37
3
Leapfrogging
40
3
Memorandum Harvest
43
5
Nothing but the Truth
48
6
Show Me the Money
54
5
You Are Not Alone (Dealing with Other People, Whether they Like It or Not...)
59
36
Consider the Source
61
4
Corporate Cockroaches
65
3
A Favor They Can't Refuse
68
2
Gossip Is Good
70
3
Hatfields and McCoys
73
3
The John Wayne Syndrome
76
2
Other People's Politics
78
4
Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar
82
3
Upstairs, Downstairs
85
4
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
89
4
Witch Doctors
93
2
Bad Moon Rising (There's Trouble on, the Way...)
95
40
Covering Your Butt
97
3
Do the Right Thing
100
3
Enemies: A Love Story
103
4
For Whom the Bells Toll
107
3
Full Frontal Revenge
110
3
Future Shock
113
2
Groveling in Mortification
115
4
In Sickness and in Wealth
119
4
The Sour Grapes of Wrath
123
4
Sticks and Stones
127
4
That's No Way to Say Good-bye
131
4
Here, There, and Everywhere (On the Phone, in the Bathroom, on the Computer, at a Bar...)
135
30
Edifice Complex
137
3
On the Rocks
140
3
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
143
4
Private Parts
147
4
Smooth Operator
151
4
Virtual Politics
155
4
You Are Where You Eat
159
6
I Will Survive (How to Manage Your Attitude, Your Head, Yom Reputation, Your Looks...)
165
30
Clothes Calls
167
6
Come Blow Your Own Horn
173
3
I'd Rather Be Red than Dead
176
2
Nice Guys Finish Last
178
2
Put On a Happy Face
180
4
Size Matters
184
4
Speaking in Tongues
188
3
You're Not in the Army Now
191
4
Afterword
195
2
Acknowledgments
197
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