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Few working lives are untouched by organizational changes, internal management shuffles, office politics, and the stress, burnout, or disaffection that goes with the territory.

…sometimes there are challenges with politics about who has access to what environments and systems and it’s easier to keep things the way they are instead of trying to blend and merge the skills and responsibilities on the team.

Managerialism has become the pretext for creating a new covert form of feudalism, where wealth and position are allocated not on economic but political grounds…

…value itself is a constant political argument. No one is ever quite sure what it is.

When things move fast, the need to concentrate on what is going on in their environment gives people less time and energy to devote to organizational politics.

…the public is likely to be swayed by sunk costs, so sticking with a fallacy is politically safer than making a logical decision.

We should be careful not to see psychology and politics as separate forces; they can be mutually reinforcing and typically are in big projects.