“It’s not about you” And yet every part about most people’s ascendency up the management ladder reinforces that it is. The pay usually goes up. An increase in

“It’s not about you” And yet every part about most people’s ascendency up the management ladder reinforces that it is. The pay usually goes up. An increase in attention from the outside goes up. You are held responsible. The process usually is mired in some show of “selection” where you the individual are rendered “distinct” from your peers (of course, there’s a dark pattern that as the least competent/influential member of the ranks at hand, you are put in a place where you do less damage to the actual “value creation” pipeline). It’s not like you and your peers drew straws, and you took the noble sacrificial road of collegiate duty, taking the low road so others could remain on the high. Even if you strive for some form of equanimity in the greater effort, self titling yourself “manatary” or “secrager”, those that work for you, or you work for, or whatever, will treat you differently than peers, practicing various forms of signaling to advance their own status. Read the article. Nice principles. But seemed pretty idealistic/naive when refracted off of my experience in most corporate cultures.