Run towards the things you hate, not away

Run towards the thing you hate, not away. If politics with idiots is your kryptonite, then that’s the thing people need to see you never shying away from. Even if it sucks, even if it hurts.

“Conditional executives” go nowhere. If you find yourself saying “I don’t want to do x because then I will have to y” you are telegraphing your ceiling.

Even if you need a therapist to yell about it, in my view what you must telegraph to others is an unrelentingly positive view of the plate of shit in front of you to eat, if you want your horizons to expand in a corporate context.

If you don’t find yourself in this advice, that’s totally ok too. Eating sin is unpleasant, and most people should think twice of climbing the corporate ladder.