The ‘tiara effect’ trap
Hard work is still very important, but simply waiting for someone to pick up on it is detrimental.
The tiara effect is the tendency people that work hard have to hope that the right people notice and come along and place a tiara on their heads. But that usually doesn’t happen.
One of the things that can happen to people who do good work and nothing else is that they’re under the radar. If you don’t draw attention to yourself in other ways, it’s easy to fade into the background.
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