To be successful in today's work world, you must be more than just smart and do more than simply accomplish your goals and objectives. You must be savvy and able to forge alliances as well as avoid animosities in order to be effective. This book covers a critical element for success that people rarely talk about - the ability to understand all the unspoken things that go on in their workplaces which can quickly derail their efforts and agendas as well as stagnate their careers. Participants learn 44 Rules of "positive" workplace politics in order to navigate and build relationships in the workplace. They come to understand 11 ways to tell who has unspoken power and influence within organizations and how to enhance their working relationship with their manager. In addition, readers are given practical, how-to steps for choosing a mentor and for long-term career planning while remaining authentic and being wholly devoted to making themselves, their boss, and their co-workers more highly effective on the job.