Without a clear understanding of the way the politics are functioning around you, the best you can do is hope that your own influence attempts will work. Success or failure resides within the vague web of informal agendas and interactions between the powerful people and players. You may well believe that your success should rely on your brilliant ideas or no-brainer business case — but it doesn’t. The ideas which get implemented are those favoured by the most powerful players — that the numbers do stack up is usually incidental (albeit convenient). Yet understanding this hidden world is tough, particularly for those who are not yet actors within the political mainstream. Understanding is developed by degrees and this happens naturally over years of experience, or you can focus on it now and accelerate not only your Read More