[at-fates-hands]

"Inter-office politics and personal agendas often influence executive decision making more than shared company goals."

Office politics are everywhere you go. Be it a huge corporation or a small startup. Everybody has their groups and their axes to grind, friends they promote and demote people they see as a threat.

It would be nice to remove it, but you're talking about something that's a part of every office culture.

[bpyne]

Spot on but you can generalize it a little more. Anytime you have more than 2 people with their own goals and limited resources, you're going to have politics. It's built into our species.