In my experience, something that really separates “A players” (in the career sense, rather than technical skills) from “B players” is focus on the metagame. Net

In my experience, something that really separates “A players” (in the career sense, rather than technical skills) from “B players” is focus on the metagame. Networking, schmoozing, manoeuvring, strategically chasing easier high-profile projects and side stepping poisoned chalices. Often this behaviour results in more rapid advancement at the expense of the people they they clamber over on their way up the ladder.