Comment by djhaskin987

The third question will give you a valuable map of influence in the organization. The more often names show up and the context in which they show up tends to provide a very different map of the organization than the one in the org chart.

This hits me hard. I always go into a company and ask to see its org chart so I can get a feel for where I'm at in the company. I have been frustrated before because some companies don't have org charts or they are inaccurate. I will be using this trick in the future.