Even doing a good job may not be enough. Success often means both performing well and making sure the right people know your performance. In other words, you have to use politics to your advantage. Many discussions about office politics is negative--at best, a necessary evil -- and something that ought to be avoided if possible. That.s an unrealistic view. Politics is simply dealing with people to get things done, and wherever there are people, there is politics. The job that.s free of politics does not exist. Says Chuck Sundberg, head of the Placement and Career Planning Center at the University of California at Los Angeles，‘Your supervisor (主管人）has his own needs, wants, desires and aspirations, and those are going to affect the way he deals with you and the projects he.s in charge. You.ve got to be aware of that. And if anybody suggests that.s wrong, then they.ll nver adjust to life, friend!.‘That doesn.t mean you have to be manipulative（操纵的）’, continues Levinson.‘ But it does mean you have to take the time to be familiar with people in an organization.. Find out what different people do, what different departments do, and let people find out what you do --- your skills and competencies. If you ignore that, you may find yourself getting the short end of the stick -- not because people are having ill will, but because they don.t know you.

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