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Don’t shoot for the moon: aiming for ‘above average’ is key to success, maths suggests
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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If you are an actual top performer, they don't promote you because they don't want to lose your talent in your current role. It's why management is usually made up of half useless chodes.
Another theory concerning how useless some higher ups are is that people keep getting promoted until they reach a position where they’re not doing such a good job anymore.
Yup, which is why I hate when engineers and the like yearn for a promotion. Like, stop. You're good at what you do and you should be rewarded for that monetarily or with other benefits, but not with a promotion outside of your skill set.
In the tech world, I don't think it's weird that a team manager (not tech lead) would make less than their best performing employees but I'm not sure if it ever happens.