office politics/power battles examples?

so today was my last day in my corporate finance class and my professor was giving us some life advice told us basically that when he was working he tried not to focus on office politics BS but might have done better if he worried more about that kind of stuff.

does anyone have examples of office politics/power battles in his/her career?

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