<story><title>Key practices for achieving large professional goals</title><url>https://nodramadevops.com/2019/12/key-practices-for-achieving-large-professional-goals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>&amp;gt;professional goals&lt;p&gt;This is missing one major ingredient: Office politics, image and associated soft skills&lt;p&gt;Finding more and more that actual technical skill has less and less impact on my professional career.&lt;p&gt;As uncomfortable as it makes me the conclusion is inescapable: playing the game well is now front and center</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drunkpotato</author><text>This is something I always tried to instill in my direct reports: fix the problem. Publicly take credit for fixing the problem. Call out people who helped you fix the problem. Thank people in other departments who helped. I tried to model this as well: publicly take credit for my team’s successes. Call out individuals who helped. Call out other teams’ individual contributors (and managers!!!) who helped. Build a support network of people who want my team to succeed because we make them look good, publicly, visibly! One place I worked had company wide release notes that went to every employee, and I think this was an invaluable tool for success that I evangelize everywhere. Coding is half the battle; everything else is the other half!</text></comment>
<story><title>Key practices for achieving large professional goals</title><url>https://nodramadevops.com/2019/12/key-practices-for-achieving-large-professional-goals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>&amp;gt;professional goals&lt;p&gt;This is missing one major ingredient: Office politics, image and associated soft skills&lt;p&gt;Finding more and more that actual technical skill has less and less impact on my professional career.&lt;p&gt;As uncomfortable as it makes me the conclusion is inescapable: playing the game well is now front and center</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amznthrowaway5</author><text>I would be careful grouping everything related to human communication with office politics.&lt;p&gt;Things like effectively communicating ideas, getting people aligned on a project, improving team morale etc. are very important soft skills that deserve to be rewarded.&lt;p&gt;Wasteful politics like sucking up to the right people, claiming credit for others work by giving the higher ups an inaccurate view of your contributions, putting others down etc. are what gets people promoted more often from what I&amp;#x27;ve noticed, and should not be confused with good communication skills.</text></comment>