You and him have different aspirations. You want to put minimal effort and still somehow progress in your career. He want to put maximum effort and advance faster. Clearly he is going to become your manager even if he do not have seniority. You will stuck in the same position or hop to new job. He will get exploited by organisation and discarded when not needed.
1. Losers - the biggest group of employees. they are easy to manipulate and will easily follow the lead. These people trade their life for paycheck and are worse off in economic sense. Over productive losers get promoted to Clueless.
2. Clueless is group of employees usually middle management that personally believe in organisation. These people will put insane amount of work because they what company to succeed. Even if they are only getting slightly more, they carry way more responsibility.
3. Sociopaths/Founders/Stakeholders is top layer in any organisation. They want organisation to be predictable, It don't matter if organisation fails they will succeed anyway. They need Clueless as insulation layer to Loser.
1. Losers - the biggest group of employees. they are easy to manipulate and will easily follow the lead. These people trade their life for paycheck and are worse off in economic sense. Over productive losers get promoted to Clueless.
2. Clueless is group of employees usually middle management that personally believe in organisation. These people will put insane amount of work because they what company to succeed. Even if they are only getting slightly more, they carry way more responsibility.
3. Sociopaths/Founders/Stakeholders is top layer in any organisation. They want organisation to be predictable, It don't matter if organisation fails they will succeed anyway. They need Clueless as insulation layer to Loser.
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