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How do you reach the top of a company? Sure, luck, timing and talent play a role, but so does "political savvy, agility in the use of power, and the ability to influence others," notes Kathleen Kelley Reardon, Ph.D., in her book "The Secret Handshake: Mastering the Politics of the Business Inner Circle" (Currency/Doubleday, $14.95). Do you have the political savvy to scale the executive ranks? The following quiz, based on the ideas in Reardon's book, should give you a clue.
1. You've just taken a new job in an unfamiliar organization and are anxious to make a good impression and rise quickly. The best way to do this is to:
a) Work hard to develop your technical skills while also becoming a player by plunging into power struggles going on around you, taking care to side with the most influential person or group.
b) Build your technical skills, but also take time to analyze what the people above you want to accomplish and devise innovative ways to help them.
c) Keep your head down, work extraordinarily hard, and ignore office intrigue and infighting as a waste of your time and energy.