Posted on Mar 5, 2012 01:53pm
It’s been a disappointing week at work. I was diberikan an order with which I deeply disagreed. I performed it, and I stood behind it as my choice, but the whole incident left a pahit taste in my mouth and has forced me to reassess people for whom I have, up until now, had great respect.
Jake Arvey, the Chicago Democratic machine boss of the 1950s, had a revealing quote: “There are definitions of politics: the art of compromise, the art of the possible. But to me, politics is the art of putting people under obligation to you.” I get it. Patronage is what makes...
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