| Do you want to get a promotion and make a lot | | | | summarize, for these people it is all about |
| more money? Do you want to be recognized for | | | | self-preservation and self-promotion.Are the ?Big |
| your hard work? Do you want to keep your job and | | | | Fish? unethical or self-absorbed? No, the successful |
| not be downsized? In fact, do you want to know | | | | people just want excellent employees working for |
| the secret to be Upsized? The most important skill | | | | them and they expect results. If you were in a |
| you will ever learn is how to study and understand | | | | dog-sled race would you want a team of Siberian |
| Office Politics.Office politics plays a very important | | | | Huskies or Chihuahuas? The answer is obvious; you |
| role in whether you get a promotion, an award, the | | | | would want to win the race so you would want the |
| job that you want, or the compensation that you | | | | best team available.Can this information be helpful to |
| receive. Virtually every aspect of your professional | | | | you? Let me ask you:1. Do you think you stand a |
| career is influenced by social politics. The proper | | | | better chance of getting a promotion working for a |
| understanding of the social ?food chain? in your work | | | | ?little fish? or a ?Big Fish??2. Is your chance of getting |
| space is essential for your professional success and | | | | a good raise better or worse if the VP knows your |
| financial well-being.To understand why the | | | | name and the projects you have worked on?3. Are |
| organization works and how to use that information | | | | you more or less likely to move up in the company if |
| to your advantage, you must first understand how | | | | you are working on a ?Big Fish?s? pet project?The |
| the ?Big Fish? act and think. Who are the ?Big Fish?? | | | | bottom line is this?If you align yourself with a ?Big |
| They are the decision makers, the people who are | | | | Fish? you will be considered for more opportunities |
| up-and-coming in the company and the people who | | | | than you would ever have working for a ?little fish?. |
| hold ultimate power in the company. These are the | | | | Why? The reason is because people trust people |
| CEO?s, Presidents, VPs, managers, and supervisors | | | | who can get the job done. If the ?Big Fish? trusts |
| who are what I consider to be ?in favor?.When it | | | | you then he/she will be comfortable giving you more |
| comes to these ?Big Fish? they typically care only | | | | and more responsibility. And with more responsibility |
| about two things. The first is how they can take | | | | comes promotions and A LOT more money.Study |
| credit for increasing the effectiveness of the | | | | your office politics and align yourself with a ?Big Fish? |
| company and the second is who around them can | | | | and will progress your career farther and faster than |
| get the results they need to be successful. To | | | | you ever could have imagined. |