Rodgers Figure 1.1 Give-and-Take Mindsets Ethical base: good for the organization? - Take + + Martyr Masterful Give Here is a depiction of organization politics in terms of interests. Organization politics can be negative or it can be positive depending on how people operate. We have all seen the negative side. Sometimes that negative side can become so prevalent that it obscures the positive side when individual and organizational interests are aligned. However , positive politics doesn’t always happen by itself even though that is the original intent in the design of the organization . As in the quote ‘all it takes for evil to conquer is for good men to stand by and do nothing.’ Especially in times of change when people may be losing sight of what the organizational interests are, real leadership is needed from everyone to prevent dysfunctional politics from taking over. The bottom two quadrants generally don’t contain many people for long because of burnout or flameout. For further discussion see the Pol. Savvy book on page 41 Modest Machiavellian -