Haha, love this. There's a lot of truth in there for sure. I think some people definitely get promoted like that, while some others legitimately do so by being

Haha, love this. There's a lot of truth in there for sure. I think some people definitely get promoted like that, while some others legitimately do so by being really good. For me, the standing part though which I have observed is that: "An organization cannot commit suicide." In that sense, most companies have an accretion problem. And what people don't realize is, that's true of your manager, their manager, and up all the way. It would take someone external to put the breaks, which only happens if the company starts to do bad, then the shareholders expect change, and so a garbage collection takes place, and accretion starts again.