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The System Made Me Do It: A Life Changing Approach to Office Politics

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Read this book to understand the games that go on within companies and organizations and how to play them. Opting not to play can be harmful to your career. Susan Osborn has a wealth of experience to draw on: parole officer, social worker, human resource manager, trainer, and teacher.

This review is long overdue. This book will transform you and open up your world to a wider vision, expand your perception and worldview. Whether you are climbing a corporatate ladder or you are planning to or have dropped out of the corporate world and working on fulfilling your own dream. A powerful and painless way to learn systems concepts. Learn how to spiritually fulfilling worklife and personal life. Easy to read with story telling concept.

I found this book to be too loaded down with philosophy and musings and not practical enough to be useful. The writing style reminds one more of a book of poetry than of a book on organizational structure and design. If one wants to read a book on how to succeed within various organizations and how to understand office politics, I recommend Kelly's "How to Be a Star at Work," Taub's "Work Smart" and even "The Idiot's Guide to Office Politics." I did not find what I was looking for in this tome and was very disappointed.

I think this is really a type of meditation book on discovering how to maintain freedom in a work culture. The author has many different types of experiences and was able to figure out an interesting approach. At first, I couldn't get into this book, but later enjoyed it once I accepted it didn't use an expected analytical method. Using these principles and thought processes, work culture is more tolerable mainly because it's far easier to reject it outright.