Article: In Fannie Mae's Culture, It's Best to Go With the Flow Series: THE MONEY MACHINE: HOW FANNIE MAE WIELDS POWER Series Number: 2/2

Fannie Mae can seem a highly political place to work, where networking, appearances and presentation skills can mean the difference between career success and problems. "Politics at this company is treacherous," a mid-level Fannie Mae employee said. "A lot of non-political people get left behind."

Fannie Mae's former head of investor relations, Paul Paquin, was fired last year after chief executive Jim Johnson and others were upset over his performance at an investor conference - his introduction of the boss was deemed to be insufficiently flattering and the financial slides he projected on a giant screen were

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