Man is a wolf to man. Managers abuse their power; subordinates shirk their duties; they all lie to get away with it.All organisations generate privileges, particularly for those who sit at the top;office politics result from people competing against each other to gain or retain these privileges for themselves. Yet, while it is true that some background noise of internal politics is inevitable in any human enterprise, certain conditions can either turn it into a relatively mild, manageable nuisance or, conversely, make it grow so big that it eventually brings the organisation to its knees....