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There is a recognizable figure in every large organization: technically excellent, broadly trusted, and never quite in the room where the work actually gets decided.

This book is about what that person is missing.

Business Diplomacy is written for the competent professional who has been promoted at least once, can see the senior levels of their institution from where they stand, and has begun to suspect that the climb from here runs on something other than technical merit. That "something other" rarely has a name in management training. This book gives it one: diplomacy—not as flattery or political maneuvering, but as the disciplined capacity to operate inside institutions whose members have only partially aligned interests, without sacrificing either effectiveness or integrity.

Drawing on composite cases from banking, consulting, law, audit, and industry, the book moves chapter by chapter through the actual terrain of institutional life:

• The currencies of organizational power — authority, hierarchy, trust, and restraint, and how each is built or spent

• The working crafts — speaking upward, managing difficult stakeholders, reading silence, surviving meetings, disagreeing without rebelling

• The tests — crisis, ambiguity, conflict, and the treatment of the people who report to you

• The arc of a career — mentorship and succession, working across cultures, promotion politics, compensation, the first hundred days in a new role, and the discipline of leaving well

Each chapter stands on its own—a reader currently struggling with a specific situation can go directly to the relevant chapter—but the argument accumulates: the political dimensions of institutional life are not a flaw to be reformed away. They are a permanent feature of any group of people cooperating around partially shared interests. The only real choice is whether to participate in them with skill and dignity, or clumsily and at the cost of one's integrity.

This is not a memoir and not a how-to manual. It does not offer techniques to apply on Monday morning. It offers something slower and more durable: a vocabulary for what senior professional judgment actually consists of, and a disciplined way of attending to it.

For the reader prepared to take the long view, Business Diplomacy is a practical philosophy for the second half of a career—the part that technical training was never designed to prepare you for.

Número de páginas :306
Isbn 13 :9798184553047
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