Seema Raghunath

At the workplace, you are where you are because of merit. Your skills are a matter of envy. Your ethics are unquestionable. Your colleagues feel comfortable around you, and your only strategy is doing your best. In a nutshell, you are doing everything right — if it were an ideal world. But you see others, far less competent than you, being promoted. Any twisted conduct in office leaves you flummoxed because you can never anticipate such moves. You may steer clear of politics, but it never leaves you alone.