> “Managers rarely spoke to me of objective criteria for achieving success because once certain crucial points in one’s career are passed, success and failure s

> “Managers rarely spoke to me of objective criteria for achieving success because once certain crucial points in one’s career are passed, success and failure seem to have little to do with one’s accomplishments. Rather, success is socially defined and distributed.” I always thought that in IT, we have somewhat reliable metrics for measuring everyone’s contributions. The above quote is as depressing as it is true...