Every organization has its share of political drama: Personalities clash. Agendas compete. Turf wars erupt. But you need to work productively with your colleagues{u2014}even difficult ones{u2014}for the good of your organization and your career. How can you do that without compromising your personal values? By acknowledging that power dynamics and unwritten rules exist{u2014}and navigating them constructively. The HBR Guide to Office Politics will...

Shares advice on how to calculate one's true value to an organization by recognizing the cost of actions and attitudes, explaining how to become an invaluable team member and find greater job satisfaction.

The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.

Stylish and ambitious, Jewelle Joseph, JJ to her friends, has the perfect opportunity to make her move into senior management through the newly created sales and distribution spin-off company. It will mean a significant salary increase and equally important it will allow her to reign in and over her rival and fellow international sales executive, Chantal Mercier. But Chantal's got her eye on the VP of sales position too. The competition between these...

A satirical office comedy centered around a morally conscious man, Ted, who works for a research and development department at a morally lax corporation.

"Nishino Kanako was just an everyday office worker until she quit her crappy job to get away from her even crappier boss. Now, almost completely by accident, she finds herself working as a hitman. Nobody would have imagined that unassuming Kanako would be a natural born killer, but hey, life's funny like that sometimes. It's maybe too awkward to explain to her mom, but a newly confident Kanako resolves to become a legendary assassin...so long as pesky...

"Nishino Kanako used to be an ordinary office worker, but somehow she wound up with a dangerous new gig: working as a hitman! Turns out she's got an enormous amount of talent for all things death and destruction, and the notorious contract killer known only as "K" is making big waves in the underworld. Maybe too many waves, as a matter of fact. With the police taking an interest in her work, Kanako is under new orders to lay low back in her hometown,...

Rejoin Dunder Mifflin boss Michael Scott, Jim and Pam as they bring romance to the workplace, Dwight as he continues his quest to be Michael's right-hand man, and newly deemed "Wunderkind" Ryan, who's working to drag Dunder Mifflin into the digital age.

Ted Crisp, head of research and development, navigates through the professionals and personnel politics of life within the large, soul-less Veridian Dynamics.

Michael Scott is an earnest but clueless boss who can't help but contribute his own irreverant commentary to the daily happenings at the Scranton branch of the Dunder Mifflin paper company. As the staff deals with potential office closures, mergers, romances and advancement, Michael is always there to say all the wrong things at all the right times.