This document discusses company culture and office politics. It notes that every company has its own unwritten culture that can be seen through employee moods and habits. Office politics are often about power dynamics like budgets and decision makers. Culture greatly impacts politics - a bad culture leads to worse politics. Some signs of a bad culture are distrust between employees and lack of opportunity for different ideas. To improve things, companies should focus on fostering positive connections between employees instead of bad politics.

1. Company Culture
&
Office Politics
23th November, 2014
Saiko Shiroto

2. Company Culture
Every company has its own culture.
It is not written.
Or at least not only written things.
You can see it as mood or habits.
Sometimes it brings Peer pressure.

3. Office Politics
It is almost about Power Games.
Who is the keystone?
Who keeps budgets?
Where the wind blow from?
Whom to negotiate with?

4. Talking with Someone
Can you talk with a stranger?
Yes, you can do only on general topics.
Can you talk with someone
who belongs to different culture
which you do not prefer.

5. Culture Affects Politics
Politics is about humans.
That means culture matters on politics.
Bad culture gets politics worse.
Check the points of bad culture.

6. 5 Bad Things to Culture
1. Break between people
2. Distrust bosses and organizations
3. No opportunity to speak different idea
4. Hopeless situations to get new things
5. Opacity at work

7. How Bad Politics Works
Bad culture and bad politics are intolerant.
People feel uneasy and uncomfortable
and then become doubtful.
They abandon a company of
bad culture and bad politics.

8. What Could We Do?
Just give up?
Try keeping people in office?
How?
Cultivate nice mood and habit
instead of drowning in bad politics.

9. 5 Good Things to Culture
1. Connect and be grateful
2. Get acknowledged each other
3. Talk face to face
4. Show how things work
5. Share visions, thoughts and funs

10. Make It Happen!
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