Corporate Politics - Introduction

This represents one of the things that I hate most because it is a waste of time and enemies often arose out of it.

Unfortunately, it's common in most work place and is most prevalent in the upper echelon of management.

However, from an optimistic perspective, it allows one to understand the parties involved in these episodes better with regard to their characteristics and also what it means to be 'each for themselves'. Apparently, the Chinese culture recognized this ages ago, as depicted by this well-known verse - (人不为自，天诛地灭) translated as "if one does not think for himself, he suffers eternal perdition".

Recently I witness this in my workplace.

The Cast:

- An underperforming CEO ("CEO")

- A Business head who tried very hard (successful in certain aspects) ("BH")

- A New Kid on the Block who is trying to impress (aka "NKOB")

- A Ex-Business head who disappoint all (where I'm concerned) with her departure (EB)

- A head office director who pokes his nose in the subsidiary group affairs too much ("Nosey")

Introduction

Background

1) Stage

This company that I'm in, is considered fairly large with diverse interests in different areas (will not divulge further, otherwise too obvious. Anyway, this is not the main point). Several years back, the head office decided that there are values to be extracted from my company and decided to acquired 100% of its shares, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary. With this acquisition, they ousted the old management (through the passage of time) and injected their own management (newly recruited and existing) to the subsidiary.

To be continued.....