games-at-work--how-to-recognize-and-reduce-office-politics.md

Games At Work: How to Recognize and Reduce Office Politics

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Foreword

As Daniel Goleman, and others, has taught us, emotional intelligence is a heightened awareness of self and a heightened awareness of others, as well as the dynamic between the two (link)

Moving our organizations from games to purpose is the real work of leadership. (link)

We unknowingly fill up the gas tank of game playing when we want something and are afraid we might not get it. (link)

serve ourselves; authentic leadership serves others. (link)

1. Let the Games Begin: What Games are and How They are Played in Organizations

A branch of mathematics is devoted to "game theory," which was developed by John von Neumann in his book Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour ([1944] 2007, with Oskar Morgenstern (link)

Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour ([1944] 2007, with Oskar Morgenstern). (link)

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