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Playing Politics in IT -- Toolkit?
Playing Politics in IT -- A Value Assessment
The term "politics" is a very loaded one with many connotations throughout organizations. Yet in the context of any IT directors' or managers' job, they must seek to serve others to gain their cooperation. They must give to get; reciprocity is so critical to their roles it should be written into their job descriptions. Consider how critical the role of the IT director or manager is to an entire organization. They must not only keep their entire staff focused on the internal customers who need their support to get to strategic and tactical objectives of an organization, they must also keep their department focused on the external environment as well. Balancing these two perspectives is critical for an entire IT department to keep the needs of who they serve in perspective. The urgent need of a sales person to have a new application developed for example takes on entirely different significance when IT realizes that sales is trying to beat a competitor on a major deal. Politics comes into play in the prioritization of the project, the team assigned to complete the project, and the amount of visibility given to the internal customer, which in this example is the sales department. For IT directors and managers to be effective they need to collaborate with the sales managers to figure out how best to meet their needs as efficiently as possible. Politics in this context is the ability to keep all other internal customers' expectations met or exceeded while also meeting the urgent needs of sales, for example. This balancing act is a more realistic and less cynical view of politics in IT departments. If all this sounds daunting, keeping expectations balanced, it is. Politics is critical for the role of IT directors and managers as they seek to simultaneously serve the needs of many different internal customers who are all under pressure from competitive and market forces to do their jobs.
Politics of Violence in Pinter's Late Plays When Harold Pinter received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, he spoke quite directly about the subject of political theatre: Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition
Politics of Information Management The art of information management is widely known as the tactic of policy makers guiding the policy followers into doing so. Therein comes the practice of politics and it is known that politics portends power; consequently understanding power and its application to the art of information management is both appropriate and timely. Organizations now have been proliferated by computers to an extent that they control the entire
Why? Because, for the most part, LBJ ignored them. He would invite the leadership and even critics to the White House quite frequently and listen as they offered suggestions. Usually, however, he would end up lecturing them about the wisdom of the decisions he had already predetermined. It is interesting to note, that, throughout the war, LBJ actually received far more support from Republicans than he did his own party.
Politics has never reached the importance in people's daily lives as it has any time before in history. In today's world, the globalization trend has made all of our lives interconnect whether we are aware of these connections or not. Furthermore, our world population has become so large that the competition for natural resources, especially non-renewable ones, has become an intense rivalry among many different nations and even some of
Politics of the Common Good In Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (2009), Michael J. Sandal argues that politics and society require a common moral purpose beyond the assertion of natural rights like life liberty and property or the utilitarian calculus of increasing pleasure and minimizing pain for the greatest number of people. He would move beyond both John Locke and Jeremy Bentham in asserting that "a just society can't
This remained true until the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which symbolizes a shift in American political life. After Kennedy's assassination, party politics once again raised its head and, due to the cultural effect of the Vietnam War, dominated American political life. Although at first the war caused the parties to scramble to find their identity, with the election of Richard Nixon it was quickly established that the Democrats