> As someone who cares (you do, right?!), it’s your job to run towards accountability and responsibility. It’s also your duty to be aware of the methods and str

> As someone who cares (you do, right?!), it’s your job to run towards accountability and responsibility. It’s also your duty to be aware of the methods and strategies of sociopaths, along with their strategies for influence and blame. As an individual contributor with no desire to move to management and a deficit of skill in bullshitting and manipulating, I feel this advice ("run towards accountability") is really just self-preservation. I know I can't out-maneuver all the little Machiavellis around me, but if I can be legitimately useful to some of them (my boss, for example), then hopefully I can ride the coat-tails of the skilled Machiavellis for long enough to pay off my mortgage. In other words, no I don't "care" about the goals of the company as a whole, but I still view it as rational to try and produce real value ("results" in the context of this article).