I’m so frustrated with politics and wonder which company is business-oriented or at least wants to achieve something by building something meaningful. Politics here means a few people collude together to be counterproductive to exchange personal gain regardless business interests of the company or working ethics. Please list it if it is “others”. Thanks!
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One person influencing groups of other people involves gaining trust and respect. By very definition, politics is a necessity. Because all companies are structured as hierarchies, it means by nature the structure has leaders and followers. Those leaders need to gain influence with their followers and other leaders in order to achieve anything.
As you mentioned, we are human. Hence we are driven by primitive instincts such as looking for a secure base group to belong to.
I think Google has not-that-bad office politics, but maybe I'm just not high up enough to see. They certainly have horrible amounts of non-office politics mixed in to even things out, though.