Here's a passage from Seth Godin's blog post Lead Up:
"A successful middle manager gets promoted when she takes the right amount of initiative, defers the right amount of credit and orchestrates success. That success might happen despite (not because) of who her bosses are, and that's just fine, because she's leading up."
Easier said than done, Seth. Still good advice. Too often I hear people blaming external circumstances for their failure and inability to succeed. The truth is we have more control of our situations than we like to think.
I can eat doughnuts or I can work out- those choices are going to affect my weight loss. I can blame the office's stockpile of sweets or I can blame my own poor self control. Obviously it's less fun to take accountability for the things that aren't perfect in life, but that's part of being an adult.
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