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You don't need to become famous. People strongly value personal affectations over professional skill. Failure to acknowledge this is simply wishful thinking. C
by cookiecaper 10y ago
You don't need to become famous. People strongly value personal affectations over professional skill. Failure to acknowledge this is simply wishful thinking.
Consider that most of your indirect colleagues are not well-versed enough to know whether you're doing your job well or not in the first place.
Why are so many clowns in positions with high rank, and so many better-qualified people are further down the totem pole? Because people don't respond naturally to qualifications. They respond to getting their personal interests and desires satisfied.
If you present a credible professional front and you are well-liked, that's all that matters, and you will be well-connected and rewarded well outside of any rational proportion.
- lohengramm 10y agoThis is very true in my experience. I can recognize the "People don't respond naturally to qualifications. They respond to getting their personal interests and desires satisfied." everywhere. Of course a very bright engineer will naturally achieve some success, but there will always be a bar limiting his growth to how much people who can open new doors want him around and trust (in a very personal sense) him.
- JackFr 10y agoI think this is a cop out. Soft skills are real, they are skills and they have have value in both in professional and personal settings.
- cookiecaper 10y agoYeah, I think that's what I was saying?