A Detailed And Inspiring Strategy For Staying True To Yourself At Work While Contributing To Your Organization's Effectiveness And Integrity Based On Over Fifty Candid Interviews With Businesspeople At All Levels, Including Vivid Firsthand Accounts Of Compromise And Courage Eminently Practical And Constructive, With Exercises And Strategies You Can Apply Wherever You Workhealthy Compromise Is A Fact Of Organizational Life, Part Of Accomplishing Any Meaningful Goal With Other People. But When It Involves Betraying Your Word, Your Principles, Or Other Important Commitments, It Takes A Bi Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Seeing With Peripheral Vision; What To Expect; How To Use This Book; 1 The Compromise Trap; Healthy And Unhealthy Compromise; Healthy And Unhealthy Pressure; How Shall I Engage?; The Compromise Trap; Redefining The Game; Personal Foundations; Thriving At Work Without Selling Your Soul; 2 A Devil's Bargain By Degrees; An Appreciative Inquiry Into The Dark Side Of Work; General Pressure To Conform; Routine Pressure To Compromise; Making A Gradual Deal With The Devil; How Playing Along Becomes A Trap; How Do You Know If You're In The Compromise Trap? How To Free Yourself3 Ten Misconceptions About Compromise At Work; Misconception 1: Compromise Is Always Healthy; Misconception 2: Good Companies Don't Create Unhealthy Pressure; Misconception 3: Unhealthy Pressure Is The Leader's Fault; Misconception 4: You Have To Go Along To Survive; Misconception 5: You'll Always Know If You're Crossing A Line; Misconception 6: The Company Sets The Terms; Misconception 7: You Should Just Say No; Misconception 8: Refusing To Compromise Means Fighting Back; Misconception 9: You Thrive When You Get To The Top Misconception 10: Individual Integrity Adds Up To Organizational Integrity4 How Do I Redefine The Game?; Welcome To The Parallel Universe; What It Means To Redefine The Game; Becoming Bigger; Creating Room To Redefine Your Game; Bigger Questions; Do I Have To Leave To