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Sep. 20th, 2007 12:00 amUseful character motivation tidbit of the day:
Within any large organization, there will always be competing demands for resources. This is the very essence of internal politics within most organizations.1
This was in a chapter on budget management for libraries (study, woo), but can easily be turned into a tool for creating conflict in plots. Not every antagonist must be eeevil or hate your protagonist; sometimes they're perfectly nice, principled characters who happen to have different goals. Such as manipulating the accounts peeps to hand your department's budget surplus over to *their* department (yes, this was actually covered in the chapter. Moohaha!). Remember, folks: it's not personal, justgive us your gorram budget interdepartmental politics.
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1P Clayton & GE Gorman, Managing information resources in libraries: Collection management theory and practice, p149.
Within any large organization, there will always be competing demands for resources. This is the very essence of internal politics within most organizations.1
This was in a chapter on budget management for libraries (study, woo), but can easily be turned into a tool for creating conflict in plots. Not every antagonist must be eeevil or hate your protagonist; sometimes they're perfectly nice, principled characters who happen to have different goals. Such as manipulating the accounts peeps to hand your department's budget surplus over to *their* department (yes, this was actually covered in the chapter. Moohaha!). Remember, folks: it's not personal, just
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1P Clayton & GE Gorman, Managing information resources in libraries: Collection management theory and practice, p149.
