Brownie Tales: A Book on Corporate Political Savvy

By Manu Parashar

Written as a story from the perspective of a high performer who doesn’t achieve what he deserves, Brownie Tales teaches how organization politics work.
The story takes users through power struggle and teaches basics of organization politics about how to gain visibility, how to set targets, how innovations help, who to network with and how to measure how you are improving.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Manu Parashar
• Release date: Nov 4, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452369303

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BROWNIE TALES

A book on corporate political savvy

By

Manu Parashar

Dedicated to

Manu Parashar

Edition 1

Copyright 2010

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Excerpt

Sidey told Him that if smooth talk is the best way to get a brownie, there is something better. People call it innovation. It is about doing things differently. However the best word for this activity is shurli. This is a kind of firecracker that takes off like a rocket when lit. But then goes nowhere and falls back to earth. The name just communicates the sound it makes. The shoo sound results in nothing, but sounds like a whole deal while it is happening. This is what innovation means.

Him could only vaguely understand what this meant. Sidey was a little disappointed with Him’s inability to understand this simple concept. Sidey decided to give an example. The example was related to Him’s current problem of rebels in the south of the country. While fighting with them in ravines and jungles was a difficult and dirty job, it was something that was hidden. No one could see the direct telecast of this on cable television and hence it was something that people knew was happening but could never get the complete import of. A shurli would be to put huge cutouts of RR in the rebel country and telecasting it all over national television. The reason for putting these up could be to scare rebels out of their wits. They would see huge RR’s everywhere and get very very scared. Something like this gets you an instant brownie. This brownie could be made long lasting by doing a survey that proves that rebels were actually scared. There are two kinds of shurlis.

Small and relatively silent

These ones may not get you a brownie straightaway. But these are very easy to execute and pose no danger to your overall career. One such Shurli could be to put a picture of RR in the id card of every soldier, so that he could take inspiration from RR. This would pose no long term danger to anyone, will make RR extremely happy and he would be better disposed towards you. Small shurlis increased your chance to win future brownies. Some small shurlis do get brownies. The one suggested above is one such example.

Large & exploding

These are high risk, high return ones and carry a risk of misfiring because they are so large. Misfiring could result in an instant burnt brownie. A good firing would result, on the other hand, in brownies by the sackful. These are for the adventurous only. One example would be to tell RR that he needs to be in the Southern provinces with the world media watching and he should declare that he would like Gandhi go on a fast till the rebels came and talked to him. While, if this worked, one could get 2 tons of brownies, if it did not, the world media will see RR as a fool and to top it off, RR would go hungry. Dangerous this could be. Therefore, it was to be attempted by only the courageous.

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Notes About the Book

My late husband Manu had written this book in 2003 when he fancied taking