Courtney Johnson

All of these cheat codes really point to how to play the game of office politics in a positive way, in a way that's going to encourage and uplift others, rather than playing it in the negative, slimy way.

Hello.

I'm so happy to be here.

Yeah, I mean, a lot of people are told that if they put their head down and work hard, everything will work out for them.

They'll get everything they want.

They'll accomplish their dream.

And that's just not true.

There's a whole world of politics happening behind the scenes in career.

We don't live in a meritocracy.

It's not whoever is the best and has the best ideas gets the opportunities.

It's really whoever is the most visible gets the opportunities.

And that's a difficult thing to hear.

So I think it really is just we don't have the correct information.

We have a lot of niceties about what we think should be the right information without actually addressing it head on.

Yeah.

So let's say your boss is looking for who to give the next promotion to.

They're going to pick the person who is reliable.

They know about their work.

They know about the results that they're getting.

They hear from the clients that they're awesome, right?