Editorial Review:
Two of the nation's most successful corporate leadership consultants now reveal their proven, systematic program for using the power of "high-integrity" politics to achieve career success, maximize team impact, and protect the company's reputation and bottom line. Each day in business, a corporate version of "survival of the fittest" is played out. Power plays, turf battles, deceptions, and sabotages block individuals' career progress and threaten companies' resources and results. In Survival of the Savvy, Rick Brandon and Marty Seldman provide ethical but street-smart strategies for navigating corporate politics to gain "impact with integrity," helping readers to: - Identify political styles at work through the Style Strengths Finder, and avoid being under or overly political
- Discover the corporate "buzz" on you, and manage the corporate "airwaves"
- Decipher unwritten company rules and protect yourself from sabotage and hidden agendas
- Build key networks to promote yourself and your ideas with integrity
- Learn to detect deception and filter misleading information
- Increase your team's organizational savvy, influence, and impact
- Gauge the political health of the company and forge a high-integrity political culture
In addition, Survival of the Savvy helps individuals discover and overcome their own political blind spots and vulnerabilities. They learn step-by-step methods to avoid being underestimated or denied full recognition for their achievements. It shows them how to put forward their ideas and advance their careers in an ethical manner, with a high level of political awareness and skill. After reading this book, you will never have to say, "I didn't see it coming." Organizational savvy is a mission-critical competency for the complete leader. This timely and timeless book provides cutting-edge strategies and skills for surviving and thriving as you build individual and company success.
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Customer Reviews
Average Customer Rating: 
Don't waste your money  2008-08-15
I bought this book based on all the positive feedback. E.g. "Read This Book If You Work Inside Any Organization", and so on. It just goes to show how useless amazon reviews are in general (read: ignore 5 star reviews).
The basic premise of this book is dealing with company politics while maintaining a high morale ground. It goes into all the nasty political things that may or may not happen, and provides a huge amount of micro responses to specific gnarly situations.
The book paints a very bleak picture of corporate politics. This is probably necessary to support it's other thesis: you need this book to survive. I seriously got depressed reading this book when I bought it before starting my current job. It makes it sound like the corporate political landscape is nothing short of a fall on war that requires extreme social cunning and wits, regardless of your ability to do your job.
The only possible worth this book will have is if you work at a highly bureaucratic, "who you know, not what you know" type of environment. Rather than buying this book, I'd recommend looking for somewhere else to work. Successful companies will recognize people based on their ability to deliver - not who they sleep with.
An important read no corporate person should be without...  2008-05-14
Every once in a while a business book comes along that is important and can make a sea change in how one views things in their work life. This is one of those books. This is a book that I wish had come along earlier in my career, but nevertheless one that has helped me a great deal even at the point I find myself at.
Written in an engaging and witty style, Brandon and Seldman's message is sensible and clear; politics happen, are a fact of corporate life and can help or hinder you depending on the way you manage yourself within a politicized environment.
There are many useful tips and strategies in this book which can be easily applied and can make a difference in the way you are viewed within an organization. I found the concepts of "savvy" and "buzz" to be interesting. I also found the self-audit tool excellent in the sense that it helps you identify where you are in a continuum of "too political" or "not political enough". More than anything it was a wake up call for me to identify my blind spots and potential blind spots in terms of managing my image and career within the political intricacies that are ubiquitous in my organization. I highly recommend this book. It will only help your effectiveness and thus your career.
A Book for The Ages! Excellent for Anyone Who Works With Other People 2007-11-07
Simply stated, this is an important book that tackles a taboo subject. Each chapter offers new insights and case studies, and, best of all, step-by-step tactics. I encourage all my MBA and Executive MBA students to read it, and it is encouraging to see so many positive responses.
But this book is essential reading for more than just individuals in the business world. Politics rears its head anytime two or more gather to accomplish anything. I can imagine churches and non-profits will find Brandon and Seldman's high integrity approach to organizational politics extremely useful as well.
Useful, sensible, unexceptionable  2007-10-23
This readable volume fills out useful details on how the moden corporate citizen can take stock of their devices for getting on and pick up many hints and tips that should improve their game.
None of it is really exceptional. Much of it feels very calculated and non authentic, but I did find it useful to highlight my habitual practice.
Its worth completing the questionnaire on line as a way to focus your reading.
Abort your aversion- you should be doing this already! 2007-10-22
We all shudder at the work politics and rightly so- who hasn't been threatened by unethical behaviors. This book illustrates and enlightens those of us who have been avoiding this arena.
It is straightforward and clearly states how you can be successful without compromising values. It demonstrates how ethics play a strong role in success. It places in perspective how to be savvy and true to yourself and your goals. READ IT! You will use it as part of your portfolio for a long time
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