Corporate Politics for IT Managers: How to get Streetwise Book

Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: the IT tribe; What's the problem? - The IT stereotype and organisational politics; I'm just trying to do my job - Coping with the stereotype; The phantom IT strategy; Projects: the illusion of being managed; Staying alive; Writes of passage; Meetings (of minds?); Reinventing the wheel; Firefighting and rework; Shattering the illusion; Why won't other people let me do my job? - Leading, managing and abdicating; Recruiting into the tribe; Talk to me; Where are you when we want you?; Lock horns and push; Business priorities and culture: the unspoken agenda; Breaking the taboo: marketing IT services; Suppliers and consultants: the wolves at the door; Let someone else do it for a change; Becoming streetwise - Shades of grey; Say hello to the rest of your brain; Blowing the whistle; All stressed out and nowhere to go; Lighten up a little; IQ is not everything; The road to Damascus; You lead, I'll follow; The front row of the grid; Where am I going?; Riding off into the sunset - You are not alone.