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Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: Chapter 8 & Career Advancement

December 9, 2008

On your way up the corporate ladder, you are bound to come across “zero sum” situations in which there will be a winner and a loser. When you reach one of these moments, compassion, honor, and self-indulgence will suddenly become luxuries you cannot afford. In a battle for that single open slot, the compassionate candidate can be hurt, the honorable shamed, and the self-indulgent ridiculed.

I am not an advocate of “politics” as the term is generally applied; I do not wish to advocate gamesmanship.

I do intend to make you take a cold, hard look at yourself and ask: How badly do I want it?

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Jason Seiden is Co-founder and CEO of Ajax Social Media, a training company that shows professionals how use social media to work more effectively.

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