Your dad's Peter Principle line has real data now. Benson, Li and Shue studied salespeople and found firms tended to promote their best sellers into management, where they turned out to be worse managers and their teams' sales dropped. So 'Happy' saying no might be the most useful thing for the company as well. I'd love a follow-up on the people who say yes for the raise and then quietly miss the work they loved.
How refreshing to read permission to turn down a promotion, when most of us were raised to want only the next rung. Happy's letter is close to my heart, and I wrote about a similar choice in an essay. In this process, I looked at my managers and their managers because I needed to understand their jobs, what they were doing, and whether I would be interested in doing it.
Love hearing about personal stories where people stick to what they love to do and technically go against the grain of what society pushes. Contentment in life is such an underrated experience. Your story puts a lot into perspective.
I’m glad to hear it. I actually get the sense that there many women in particular are looking to take a step down in their career ladder. I’m doing a little recon to see how accurate that is, because that would make for a really interesting articke.
Your dad's Peter Principle line has real data now. Benson, Li and Shue studied salespeople and found firms tended to promote their best sellers into management, where they turned out to be worse managers and their teams' sales dropped. So 'Happy' saying no might be the most useful thing for the company as well. I'd love a follow-up on the people who say yes for the raise and then quietly miss the work they loved.
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How refreshing to read permission to turn down a promotion, when most of us were raised to want only the next rung. Happy's letter is close to my heart, and I wrote about a similar choice in an essay. In this process, I looked at my managers and their managers because I needed to understand their jobs, what they were doing, and whether I would be interested in doing it.
Love hearing about personal stories where people stick to what they love to do and technically go against the grain of what society pushes. Contentment in life is such an underrated experience. Your story puts a lot into perspective.
I’m glad to hear it. I actually get the sense that there many women in particular are looking to take a step down in their career ladder. I’m doing a little recon to see how accurate that is, because that would make for a really interesting articke.
I completely agree. I’ll be looking for that post if it comes out!