Power of Ideas Person (Blackboard)

I would say that most of the time I am a Power of Ideas person. I am definately a less political person and feel uncomfortable having to "play the political games." I perfer to see power as coming from performance, innovation, work, research, etc. With my clients at RBHA, I look toward making the best program for them as I can and broadcast my goals to the team to engender support and help if needed. I continually trust that my work, my ideas, creativity and intuition will be enough to "reward me", promote me, get me raises, get me new projects. I remain continually amazed that it does not always happen that way and that Power of Person people will get promoted over me despite the fact that they do not do as well a job or put as much effort into a project. But I can see how having a better grasp of the political field and the willingness to foster a relationship over job/project competance will get people further. A former supervisor told me, when I complained about this very thing, that expectations about job performance were higher for people like me and so I had a higher level to reach to be considered as "excellent or working above requirement" and that other people had lower expectations for job performance and so therefore could easily exceed expectations because of networking ability and personality and who stay within view of the power people in the agency. I have been told that my personality and work ethic is, in fact, irritating to people who perfer to broker their performance and achieve power through relationships.
So I suppose the risks of being too much a Power of Ideas person is that, these people may end up with more of the actual work and be left out of promotions, advances, credit, etc. At least, that is my experience.
So a balance of being a Power of Ideas person to get projects going and being a Power of Person individual to better market self and product.