If you need another reason to hate office politics, Dave Anderson shares some awful advice on how to join office politics, one of them is:
Slow down other teams
If other teams move quickly, your team can become a bottleneck. That never looks good. When a wild animal is chasing you, you need to not be the slowest. Slow down your peer teams by asking for info, or starting processes. As a bonus, you look as if you’re holding a high bar.
- “But have you done a user study?”
- “Did you get a security review?”
- “That design looks interesting! Could you get a principal review before you move forward?”
Once you’ve slowed them down, they’ll be a bottleneck, and it will demonstrate that your leadership is superior.