Office Politics Got You Down?

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1:16Did I make the wrong choice in taking this promotion? Okay, well, first of all, congratulations on your promotion. That's a big deal. Very, very proud of you. Listen, I think what's happening is you're operating in a different field. OK, so it's just like if you went from, you know, playing tennis, let's say, on the concrete courts and now you're playing on the clay courts or the grass courts at Wimbledon. Same game, but it's going to require a different level of skill. One of the things that I'm going to ask you to do is really reframe your sense of what it means to navigate here, particularly in terms of using the term politics.

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