HBS's audience isn't people building huge accretive value, this publication doesn't gain anything by giving advice that let's people "put you forward by a dimen

HBS's audience isn't people building huge accretive value, this publication doesn't gain anything by giving advice that let's people "put you forward by a dimension" (meaning go from x^2 to x^3 in sales or reach, let's say.) Its audience is middle managers who want to CYA. (cover your ass.) That's why a superstar programmer who brings home ('steals') a reams of printing paper after staying for three hours of crucial unpaid overtime is a "toxic worker" - since those kinds of shenanigans could well end up reflecting poorly on the manager. even if the guy will just use it to scribble all over his kitchen table, since even after 3 hours he hasn't been able to wrap his head around the logic bug. and people wonder why it's so easy for three programmers to compete with these huge lumbering organizations.