Working hard is not enough
- Despite adages and advice that tell people from a young age hard work will get you everywhere, it really won’t. Hard work is a good start and early in your career, it can certainly help you establish yourself in a job. But it’s not enough to take you all the way to the top.
- At a certain point you look around and realize, wow, everyone works hard at this level. Expertise and hard work just become the expectation, and will not help you up the ladder.
- More often than not, those who rise are the ones willing to politick their way to the top, while you were too busy just working hard to notice you should be working the room.
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