| He pretty much played by the rulebook outlined by this article: - " Be flagrant in your pursuit of the powerful and the soon-to-be-powerful, and when you have their attention, praise them to the skies" - " Discover similar interests or experiences." he did that - "you need to work hard at networking" he did that, he put an incredible amount of effort at networking after hours, managing events, organizing dinners and barbecues, etc... He was a bit of a douche, mostly by shirking low-visibility projects and getting disproportionate amounts of credit - he didn't shirk "hard" projects per se, but he'd only take them if they were very high visibility, and he'd priorize small but visible over obscure but necessary work. He was also very good at getting credit without being obvious about getting other people's credit. However, he did put in the hours, and he is a very good motivator and very charismatic. He was just very good at playing the game. |