If you know whether your workplace is oriented around power, rules, or mission, you’ll find it easier to get things done. A feeling for how much people will share information, cooperate, take the time to help, and get behind new ideas will keep you safer and less frustrated as you cross the terrain. If you know you’re in a bureaucracy, you’ll have more success if you plan ahead, stay within the rules, and respect the chain of command. If you’re in a pathological organization, you’ll take fewer risks—and cover your ass when you do. Pushing a cart across cobblestones is more difficult than doing
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