I had a friend who worked at Compaq on tools that did desktop imaging. There was one tool he used that had a big splash screen when it started naming the autho

I had a friend who worked at Compaq on tools that did desktop imaging. There was one tool he used that had a big splash screen when it started naming the author. Everyone was in awe of that guy so he used the cachet of people knowing his name to move on to bigger and better roles. My friend decided to see if he could replicate that success and when he wrote the next version of the tool he too had a big splash screen with his name up front. Sure enough it worked and for a certain subset of everyone, everyone at Compaq knew his name and he too was able to move on to what he considered a better role. There were a couple of downsides; he got calls for years after asking for help with the tool, and one boss seemed envious which led to other issues.