"You're losing your touch," she says. "I was talking to Julia and Doreen and mentioned something and they said: 'That's come from someone else.' Just thought you'd need to know."
I'm actually not fussed. I'm deliberately making it obvious what I'm doing. I'm even going out of my way to tell people that I'm pulling their strings. I'm an old man in a hurry and the time for subtlety, if it ever existed, has long gone. I've spent years trying to avoid playing office politics games, now they're unavoidable if there's to be much chance of safeguarding jobs and services. There are mutterings from Catty Library that I'm empire-building. I suggested that if I were really into empire-building I wouldn't have wasted the better part of two decades in this shambles.
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Hmmmm Machiavelli Musgrove has a good ring to it...
There's some lesson's to be learnt from Tony Blair's book...try your local library, they may have it...
" I've spent years trying to avoid playing office politics games" - I think I've found your problem, right there. These things need practice.
Macy: I'm the one who ordered a copy of "The Prince" for the staff library that time.
Nota Bene: !!! The first lesson he has to offer us is not to be a self-serving preening prig. Whenever in doubt I always ask myself: "What would Clement Attlee have done."
zmkc: there is, honestly, a difference between avoiding and abstaining. (-;
I could have written those words, you know. Every single one.
So that makes two of us that care enough...
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