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[quote=Anonymous]I've heard some people say in my federal workplace that "making the boss look good" is an important part of success.  Are there wiser brains out there who can help me get excited by this prospect?

I'm the sort of person who likes to be given a broad goal or a project and told to implement.  I'm a GS-15 so I have the rank/responsibility to lead projects and people, and I do it well.  But the "making the boss look good" part just seems completely uninteresting and like lower level work--more staff assistant sort of thing.  I have no interest in my boss looking bad and I am always respectful and keep my boss in the loop about what I am doing (and get advance approval when warranted).  But I just don't want to spend lots of my time feeding my boss my information and ideas in digestible nuggets, or polishing up his work, or spending a lot of time tracking down random details about things I don't work on directly just to curry favor with the big guy.

That said, I think this preference has cost me.  Some of my bosses have absolutely loved me--said I'm a rising star, best person in my class they've worked with, etc.  But others--and especially those who were less secure--have seen my successes as a threat and have sought to sideline me/reduce my access to higher ups.  I have a feeling if I could get more excited about making them look good, they'd be less likely to have this reaction, but how do I get motivated to do that?
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