GPTzero says 99% AI generated. But I want to comment, this is something I learnt early on in my career.

Early in my career our boss let us drink at work. He knew most work was done in the morning and so he allowed us to drink in the afternoon. Worked fine up until someone was having a bad home life and got smashed at work. Then drunk drove to a client and the client realized he was drunk. I wasnt privy to what happened with that, but then we lost the ability to drink.

Not a problem for me... I rarely drank. Everyone else went on a quiet strike. The boss was a huge prick micromanager, the guys wanted to quit because it changed things; but they simply stopped doing work. Every ticket was created and then sent to the queue. Bare minimum got worked on. Months go by and the strike quietly lifted. The drunk guy found a new job.

Months later at lunch they were trying to convince me to get drinking back; but they were trying to manipulate me. They were playing a power game to do it.

So I "fall" into their trap and go talk to the boss. argue about the 5 monkeys, that leave the rule of no drinking in place but turn a blind eye to it. The boss was like 'why do you even care, you dont drink with them." he didnt even let me answer before he realized what was happening.

>Now I think the opposite: politics isn’t the problem; bad politics is. And pretending politics doesn’t exist? That’s how bad politics wins.

Backstabbing, power structures that arent immediately obvious. But negativity is easier and especially effective when you just let bad politics win.

Trying to stay positive or out of politics is the right way.

>It just means decisions get made without you.

Yep. I'm finding myself in one of these right now. Im just staying out of it. Decisions are being made to punish me.

>Good politics is just being strategic about relationships and influence in the service of good outcomes.

This is what this AI article gets wrong. The 'bad politics' people think they are getting 'good outcomes' and if you play politics, you also think you're getting 'good outcomes' but how do you measure 'good'?

>They want a world where technical merit alone determines outcomes. That world doesn’t exist and never has.

Sure it does. This exists in the successful. Politics is what kills companies.