[kamaal]

>>You're a high performer, one year into the role. A colleague, who's been around longer but struggled, gets promoted not necessarily on merit, but on their ability to manage up.

Its honestly mostly like a queue, you can't see why people who came before should get a early exit. But those people had people before them too, and thought the same. Now that you arrived, you think your specific case be prioritised above them for merits you think count above theirs and not necessarily their place in the queue.

As much as we all think we are special, we mostly aren't, time and queue position plays a huge role in most things in the society.

Its pointless to fight the queue system, most events in life happen in an order, and its pointless to fight cause-effect sequences. Some exceptions to this absolutely exist, but this is the general rule.

>>At year-end reviews, client recognition turned into a liability, not an asset.

    Do not outshine the master - 48 laws of power

Remember the system is a part of the game, if you threaten someone you will take their job, its in their interest now to see through the end of you.

[franktankbank]

Dave wins the race not because he got to the finish line first but because he has been coming to the race for decades. LOL dumb society.

[kamaal]

More like Dave has been pushing up sacks of really valuable things up a hill, for years.

Jack who just arrived and pushed ONE sack up slightly faster than Dave, in the first week, thinks he must be promoted above Dave right then and there. Or its oppression.

To start with accept this thing first. Its human fallacy to confuse making rapid changes to a process as making fast progress. In reality sticking to one thing for long is what brings the big progress.

You might want to talk to martial arts people, stock investors/traders, musicians, surgeons, or anyone for that matter.

Someone who shows up on the 10001th morning, is not the same as some one who showed up on the 100th morning, even if the latter is some performing better creating a his own personal local maxima.

[franktankbank]

Very good retort. I will insist both things happen and our views on it probably come down to life experience and current position.

I've too often seen Dave praised for carrying sacks day in day out instead of placing them on the goddamn conveyor belt. Some have come to doubt the conveyor belts utility when we could all just be carrying the sacks. In fact if we got rid of the conveyor belt we could hire our cousin and brother-in-law to be cool like Dave.

[kamaal]

>>conveyor belt

And keeping the conveyor belt running seamlessly for years, requires showing up for years too.

There are no replacements for sticking to one thing for long.