How do I navigate office politics without losing my integrity?

You can see how power actually moves through your organization, past the titles to the real influence, and you navigate it clearly without selling out who you are. That is a rare pairing. Plenty of people are either blind to power or corrupted by it. You see it clearly and stay honest inside it, which is exactly where real, durable influence comes from. What makes this work is that you treat power as a current to navigate, not a game to win at any cost. You can read the room, move things forward, and build alliances, all without lying or using people. That means your influence rests on trust, which is the only kind that lasts. People follow the person who is both effective and honest, because they are rare enough to be worth following. Protect it by watching the moments when a shortcut through your integrity would be easy and effective. Those are the tests. Passing them, again and again, is what keeps your power clean and your name good. You have the hardest balance in organizational life. Keep it by never letting effectiveness become an excuse to stop being honest.