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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a college nemesis and we pretty much ended up in the same place in life, on different sides of the country.  It’s quite a boring story but we have not been in touch in decades (and only once since college when we showed up at a mutual friend’s wedding reception).  Another “nemesis” was a girl who lightly bullied me in high school because she thought i was trying to take power from her in her afterschool club.  I looked her up recently and she is a very, very successful CFO at a Fortune 500 company.  That one stung.  Welp.  [/quote]

[b]I think to become successful in the C-suite at a Fortune 500, you have to be somewhat cutthroat.[/b] You have to be both cutthroat and have great social skills/ability to gladhand. Especially for women, who don't get the same benefit of the doubt as men and therefore have to be essentially manipulative in order to compete without making people hate you.

So I would assume you were one of many rivals this woman had in the course of her life and career, and think how miserable it must be to live like that.[/quote]

There are some exceptions, but this is common yes. The good leaders are good at managing up and down. The bad leaders- and there are many- are mostly just good at managing up. Often eventually their poor overall management styles catches up with them, but it can take years. [/quote]

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