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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you have spent your careers hustling for mediocrity. There exists a career fast lane which you never found or never realized was there. [/quote]

This sounds like the know it all prick who comes on here repeatedly. He is a high earner who never made a wrong career mistake and a master office politician who could beat out Machiavelli.

The cold reality is that only about 10% of people ever become the Senior Executive Global Worldwide Vice President.  Doesn't matter if you went to the Harvard Business School. And it's a combination of factors that get you there. Trust me, not all of them are that bright.[/quote]

My DH is one of those “Senior Executive Global Worldwide Vice Presidents” and the combination of factors you speak of is:
willing to work harder than anyone else, sacrificing personal time, being SMART- understanding the big picture, and always serving the company and thinking of the bottom line.

It’s certainly not age. Being older is a benefit, IMO. It’s not being movie star good looking, although be likeable is very important.

Most people are incompetent and try to get out of doing more work. There are many 40 year old VPs who are think they’re good but simply lack institutional knowledge and don’t understand the big picture.

The ones who have agency and are able to move things forward and solve problems do well. You must be cordial and be highly sociable too. [/quote]

Fully agree. The thing is, the rest of the whiny PPs on this board haven’t a clue about what you’ve said. They will read your post and think that they ‘work hard - just like everyone else’; ‘couldn’t possibly have sacrificed more’; ‘ are likable - really, people do like them’; ‘have agency just like everyone else’ - but then they will also say it was life - life got in the way - had to make choices and those choices led me down this path - it’s not like i could have done anything differently. [/quote]

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