August 15, 2007
You can try to rise through the ranks through hard work, diligence or brilliance, but sometimes the best solution is to be a pleasing, predictable suck-up. You know the type. They participate in meetings and projects by raising provocative-sounding solutions, which, upon further examination, turn out to be opaque or impossible. But at the time they sound great.
Michael Kanellos in Tech cliches to live by