1. Find a boss that you're compatible with and who's not the type that will take all credit for herself. A good boss is confident, loyal and bright enough to ac

1. Find a boss that you're compatible with and who's not the type that will take all credit for herself. A good boss is confident, loyal and bright enough to actually appreciate your best work. Your boss must also be respected in the workplace. This may require a job change, even if you're happy with you salary and benefits and even tasks. 2. Make sure you understand the value structures of people arround you. In particular your boss and other decision makers, but also your peers and subordinates (if you have them). If possible, try to align your values and preferences with your surroundings. To an extent, don't come off as spineless. But it's better to make your disagreements known when it contradicts non-essential preferences. If you contradict values that form part of the identity of some influential person around you, it may be almost impossible to ally with them. 3) For your work efforts, focus your output on activities that support the values of those you would like to have a good relationship with. Often that means make them look good. But it could apply to any number of other values, too. That could be working hours, code style/language, git patterns, keeping schedules/promises, etc. 4) Where your values do not overlap with others, don't expose them. Those could be political or technical or something else. 5) If some individual occupies some niche in the organization, be careful about acting as a competitor for their spot, unless you seriously want to challenge them for it. And expect to gain an enemy when you do. 6) Time your efforts wisely. Don't solve problems nobody cares about, unless they will blame you when they start to care about them. When people feel pain, though, being seen as the one that make the problems go away can be great self promotion. This could involve putting in extra effort and/or if it can be resolved by leveraging some unique skills or talents that you may have. Be mindful that this can make someone lose face. If those who would lose face are people you want to be allied with, it may be good to use some discretion. 7) If people take advantage, and exploit your output without providing proper credit, dont spend more energy on them than necessary. Focus your efforts to assist the goals of those who show appreciation in public or other ways that matter. 8) Volunteer to do presentations, internal knowledge sharing, coaching and similar work that allow you to appear as an authority, and take these activities extra seriously. Do this both internally and externally if you can. External presentations may be the key to your next career step. 9) If you have side projects or things you've done in the past that you're proud of, just mention them in passing in situation where they're relevant, and without bragging. Reserve detailed elaboration to those who seem genuinely interested. Let's say you contributed something to an open source project your team is using, it's much better that the team hears that from that person than from you. However, if you DO have to bring such stuff up, make sure you hide your pride about it and focus on some other aspect (a compical element, the passion you have for some topic,etc). Beware, though, people are pretty good at identifying humblebragging.