How can a good employee avoid office politics but still get ahead?

Top Employee Response

Pick the right company where that's not part of the culture.

Keep your nose to the grindstone and keep your political opinions to yourself

Keep politics out of the work place.

Do their job to the best of their ability!

Be mature and keep a distance from people that cause problems.

You can't. At a certain point, your team's performance stops being the only measure, and the politics decide your advancement. But if a good employee keeps neutral, gets their work done, and consistently has good reviews from their peers and directs. They should go far in the right organization. Sometimes those good reviews and neutrality requires politicking.

You can't.

Impossible

Not in the present corporate world where politics seems more important than competence.

In my experience, it’s impossible to avoid office politics, especially if you want to get ahead.