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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the person who responded yes to Perception being more important than reality.

I work for a large organization that is full of office politics.  In that environment, being competent and doing your job well is table stakes.  What matters most for promotions is being the favorite of the senior executives and politics.  There are all kinds of calculations that go into what that entails, but it's not about how hard you work or a meritocracy at all.

Just be aware that you can be a good, hard worker but if you aren't the SVPs's best buddy or seen as a cool person (let's face it, guy most of the time), it is challenging to succeed.

For women, the grunt work often turns into being saddled with all the "unpromotable tasks".[/quote]

Meh, this is just another way of saying "work smart, not hard".  The people you describe as succeeding may be the SVP's favorite - but they didn't get that way by being incompetent.  They maybe also didn't get that way by working grueling hours and being technically the 'best' at their job.  But they probably did become a favorite because they craft emails that are perfectly usable by the SVPs, they tee up information in the most user friendly way, they have solutions and not just problems.  Again, maybe not the best, hardest worker.  But favorites tend to have made themselves valuable to their bosses.  [/quote]

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