"Don't do people favors if they don't ask for them." Sometimes in the corporate life, you imagine that X would like to have Y, and you put in a lot of effort t

"Don't do people favors if they don't ask for them." Sometimes in the corporate life, you imagine that X would like to have Y, and you put in a lot of effort to make Y happen. And then X is not even aware that Y took effort, or worse, you misinterpreted, and X is annoyed that Y happened. Better make sure that X really wants Y and asks for it.