Office Politics

Cited from the Sydney Morning Herald FEBRUARY 5 2016

"In the game of office politics sometimes you must sacrifice a pawn to become queen"

Learn how to be a better networker.
Proactively connect with others in your organisation.
Turn standard social interactions into meaningful relationships.
Practise how you communicate so that you appear more sincere.
Closely observe the goings-on in your organisation and pay attention to trends, patterns, ideas and systems that could serve you well.
Be prepared to occasionally give up short-term goals, like in chess where "sometimes you have to sacrifice a pawn in order to take a queen

Questions:

1. Do you believe these criteria are considered as "competency" in your skill-set

2. Would relationship override the actual performance a candidate performed in promotion?

3. To what extent the relationship building becoming more important in interpersonal skills

4. Communication skills is essential, practice make perfect.

5. Networking takes time and effort, yet rewarding.

6. Your bottom line. Your principal. Your standard of ethic.