Are some office antics too hard to follow or swallow but your wage and respect is at stake? Then read Tips from The Art of Office War to understand what really happens and why.

The Art of Office War is the work of Simon Drake.

“A job is not for life and now more competitive. You need to learn how to be effective, successful and not only avoid office politics, but master it. The office is where you make or break it, it’s a competitive environment and the stakes are high, but conflict is sugar coated in politeness. The defining points in your career will be when you’re in a conflict, and because the product of the office is knowledge, it’ll be your idea verses someone else, and the prize isn’t just a promotion, a pay rise or peer approval, think of confidence, self-respect and that feeling that for one day you actually did something out of the banal normal. And, you have to behave yourself at the same time. The world doesn’t get simpler, it gets more complicated, and in work, you have to evolve to keep up ”

To keep the average office worker on track, there are some basic tips to follow – not facts to be memorised before every career-changing events, but simple things to remember.