Have you allowed a project to fail, rather than allow an office powerpath success ?

Question

Have you allowed a project to fail, rather than allow an office powerpath success ?

Answer 1

Splicing ones nose to affront ones face

Office sociopath’s given a free rein wreak immeasurable damage to both project and personnel morale. The inability to manage or discipline these ruthless and ferocious creatures is evidenced latterly long past the moment of reorganisation has passed.

A project orchestrated by such a cold-blooded fiend ultimately breeds other such creatures or is brought to ruin. If the hierarchy are concerned with results alone and little with the means to achieve that end then it is a matter f a conflict of interests. Middle management aren’t responsible for the long term consequences and the CEO is focused upon the end goal that minor and trivial personality clashes.

The greater good contending with personal agenda is the issue. One can either distance or remove oneself from the entire project, or weigh up failure of the same compared with success attributed to such a contentious person and draw an indiscriminate decision as to any remedial measures to be implemented.

There are many associated factors at play. Yes I have allowed a mercenary, envious and cunning adversary to take the reins of a project wherein I had lost control, to my bitter regret. F you are in a prime position of responsibility and the outcome affects your standing it is preferable to disband the project than allow an unscrupulous rival to undermine ones credibility.  

I stand ruined, disbanded, and cast adrift.