Office Politics

Worth the read: How to Improve Your Skills at Office Politics

I particularly found this tip useful.

It's very difficult to do office politics because you have to figure out the Venn diagram of what people are having a hard time with, and what you are particularly skilled at, and where those circles intersect. This means you need a lot of self-knowledge about your strengths, and you need a lot of emotional intelligence to understand what other people struggle with.