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Cameron Langford's avatar

This seems to be what separates companywide leaders from functional ones. Functional leaders can gain authority via proximity: their teams sees their expertise up close and are able to judge it because they have the specific functional knowledge to understand why it's good. But companywide leaders need to be able to gain authority from people who aren't functional experts, which requires zooming out to connect the work to bigger company business goals and clearly articulating that impact to people who don't instinctively "get it."

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Yes there is work being done behind the scenes that many do not see, unfortunately these are the type of workers who deserve the promotions but don’t usually get them.

But that’s why when these workers leave, teams collapse.

I don’t like the fact that excellent workers have to market themselves in that way, but that is the reality of workplace culture and politics.

You are discussing a very important topic, Wes.

I think a large part of the challenge is in order to be more vocal you almost have to drop your actual work performance to compensate for your personal marketing, but this type of worker doesn’t want politics they just want to get the work done!

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