Politics Can be Detrimental to a Business

This post originally appeared at petechristianbooks.com

When we hear the word politics, we almost immediately think of our local, state, and federal officials. Their actions and activities are forefront in the news. Not in the news are politics that occur not in just government, but in many aspects of our lives. This is especially true in business. While governmental politics deals with power, office politics usually revolve around who is rewarded and who is not. That is why politics can be detrimental to a business.

Politics is:

“The set of activities associated with the governance of a country, state or an area. It is the achieving and exercising positions of governance, or an organized control over a community”.

Politics has a very ancient history. Aristotle regarded ethics and politics as related but separate. Ethics examines the good of the individual, while politics examines the good of the City-State.

Representation of a community is supposed to result in providing for the good of that group . Those who step forward to take that responsibility have ideas and plans on how that should best happen. They politic with those who will elect them. And they have to convince the community that they represent that they should be re-elected to continue to do so.

When they are not running for office, they are to be working for the good of their constituents. Even those who did not vote for them. They usually cannot…