Is It Worth Getting One

The Only Way To Get What You're Worth Is To Stand Out, To Exert Emotional Labor, To Be Seen As Indispensable, And To Produce Interactions That Organizations And People Care Deeply About.

The Challenge With Being An Initiator Of Projects Is That You Are Never, Ever Done.

A Bully Is Playing A Game, One That He Or She Enjoys And Needs. You're Welcome To Play This Game If It Makes You Happy, But For Most People, It Will Make You Miserable.

Here's The Fascinating Part, Call It The Golden Shoulder: We Have No Idea In Advance Who The Great Contributors Are Going To Be. We Know That There's A Huge Cohort Of People Struggling Outside The Boundaries Of The Curated, Selected Few, But We Don't Know Who They Are.

Excellence Isn't About Meeting The Spec, It's About Setting The Spec.