If you're part of any organisation, well, any organization that I know, then politics is, you know what? It's kind of part of the game and the larger the organisation, the more politics that can occur.

But even in small teams, it can be a little nitpicking, politics, little things going on all the time that can be really disruptive to having a great culture and people being open and transparent and politics can really cut across what it is that you're trying to achieve as a leader, as you build a great team. There's a number of ways you can deal with it and, for me, the first thing is don't engage in it yourself. Demonstrate a way of doing things that's not aligned with a political mindset. If people see you stabbing them in the back or stabbing other people in the back or gossiping or running down the company or talking about your superiors in a way that's undermining them, then they're gonna take that as acceptable behaviour.

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