title: What we can learn from the Bible about office politics
author: Michael Teng
description: Dr Mike Teng is the author of a best-selling book "Corporate Turnaround: Nursing a sick company back to health", in 2002 which is also translated into the Bahasa Indonesia and Mandarin. His book is endorsed by management guru Professor Philip Kotler and business tycoons Mr Oei Hong Leong and Dr YY Wong. He subsequently authored more than twenty management books on corporate transformation and turnaround. Dr Teng is currently the Managing Director of Corporate Turnaround Centre Pte Ltd (www.corporateturnaroundcentre.com) which provides corporate training and management advisory services. He is the national trainer appointed by the Singapore government to train displaced senior managers from Multi-national companies (MNCs) and deploy them to run small medium size enterprises (SMEs). He has more than 29 years of experience in corporate transformation and turnaround, strategic planning, operational management responsibilities in the Asia Pacific region. Of these, he held Chief Executive Officers positions for 19 years in multi-national and publicly listed companies.
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  ### ACT 01: War Preparations  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  -The new facility ‘Office of the Lord’ has been registered in the name of Ark-nim. 
  
  
  
  
  
  The ‘Office of the Lord’ is a necessary space for the Lord of any territory
  and is a symbol of pride. The Lord will be able to confirm various details
  about the territory from the office and a loyalty bonus will be applied to
  help the development of the territory. When working on territory related
  business here, the progress rate will increase by 1.5 times.
  
  
  
  
  
  * Progress rate of all territory related business increases by 1.5 times in this office.
  
  
  
  
  
  * Development of the territory when the Lord stays in the office increases by 1.2 times.
  
  
  
  
  
  * The resident bond and loyalty when the Lord stays in the office will increase by 1.2 times.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Do you like the office?”
  
  
  
  
  
  Galen indicated the wide office with a satisfied expression.
  
  
  
  
  
  “It can’t be helped even if you don’t like it. This is the Lord’s private
  office now.”
  
  
  
  
  
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