Why Office Politics Drains Senior Leaders, and What the Brain Science Says Actually Fixes It

What if office politics isn’t the problem? We talk about politics like it’s evidence that something has gone wrong. Bad culture. Insecure people. Dysfunctional leadership. Too many egos in one room. And somewhere, presumably, there’s an organization where the best idea simply wins, decisions are made entirely on merit, and nobody has an agenda. Good luck finding it. Because once you reach senior leadership, politics isn’t some unfortunate distraction from the job. Politics is the job. Resourc...