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Being charming and and easy to work with gets people raises over the prickly expert asshole all the time.
by wmeredith 4y ago
Being charming and and easy to work with gets people raises over the prickly expert asshole all the time.
- commandlinefan 4y agoI'm going to be even more cynical than you: being charming and easy to work with _to your superiors_ while being a prickly "expert" asshole to everybody "beneath you" seems to be the best way to move up into middle management.
- vkou 4y agoThat helps you convince your boss to advocate for you, but if he's ever asked to present hard evidence that justifies your value, he's going to need KPIs and metrics and all that other stuff. ... Also, being charming is entirely orthogonal to that.