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Political Savvy
Systematic Approaches to Leadership Behind-the-Scenes
Joel R. DeLuca, Ph.D.

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ISBN: 0-9667636-0-2x / 244 pages / Hardcover

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Overcoming Resistance to Change
Joel R. DeLuca, Ph.D.

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About the Book

While most people are wary of organizational politics, politically savvy individuals know how to manage them.

Political Savvy overcomes the taboo of discussing organizational politics. It debunks the stereotype of politics as a 'shark' infested manipulative underworld. Political Savvy shows how influence can actually increase by operating ethically and 'above board'.

Using tools like the 51% guide, agenda linking, credibility pathing, and political mapping, the Political Savvy approach gives practical hope to those jaded by organizational politics. This approach helps them break through victim and cynical mindsets to become 'impact players' and leaders.

About the Author

For over twenty years, Dr. DeLuca has been working in the areas of strategic planning, organization change, and entrepreneurial leadership. For eight years he headed the organizational planning and executive development functions of a fortune top 20 industrial corporation. Joel also spent four years creating the first strategic human resource planning function for one of the world's largest professional service firms.

For the last four years Joel has been on the leadership faculty at Wharton, currently the nation's top ranked business school. At Wharton he co-designed and taught the school's first action learning program for leadership and team work. It is one of the few courses required of all Wharton MBA's. He is now a senior partner in a small consulting firm in Philadelphia where he consults to corporations on strategic change and serves as an executive coach.

As a captain in the United States Air Force, Joel worked as a research scientist on solar cell systems for satellites. It was during this work that he made a career shift into the organizational sciences.

Joel has a M.S. in physics, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Yale University. He has written several articles and three books: Political Savvy, Overcoming Resistance to Change, and Learning to Use What You Already Know. He is currently working on a book entitled Entrepreneurial Leadership. For six consecutive years he was selected by the Academy of Management to review the latest research related to strategic organizational change. For seven years he served on the advisory board of the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. He was recently chosen to represent the United States as part of a delegation that toured the Peoples Republic of China to exchange leadership practices between the two countries.