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> could work hard and rise to the top What are the odds of that?
by onemoresoop 5y ago
> could work hard and rise to the top
What are the odds of that?
- cbozeman 5y agoNot good, because getting to the top of any enterprise is inherently competitive. Everyone wants the job, and there's only one of them to go around. This is the reason you see such similar personalities occupying extremely high positions in companies. You need a certain mentality and dedication to set everything to the wayside for the pursuit of climbing the corporate hierarchy.
- mistrial9 5y ago> Everyone wants the job, and there's only one of them to go around. no, everyone does not want that job. People who do want that job reduce the equation that way, though
- wyager 5y agoIf the odds were high that people underwent meteoric career trajectories, that would imply that our sorting mechanisms for placing people into well-matched jobs worked very poorly. In general, I think these mechanisms work pretty well, so people typically end up in gradual career trajectories they're well-suited for.
- jhgb 5y agoWell at the very highest it's 1/N, where N is the number of employees at the organization.
- lordnacho 5y agoThere's lateral hires with their eyes on the same job too.
- jhgb 5y agoThat's why I wrote "at the very highest". It can't be more that that, but it can be less than that.
- simplestats 5y agoBut they leave a company somewhere else so don't affect the average number unless they move from a smaller company.
- oneoff786 5y agoTechnically non zero