Re:When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
by jabroni_salad on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:40PM
(#23861501)
It is easy to see zero-sum as noncooperative but in reality there is more than one winner. In fact, the number of losers is relatively small. One thing you can do to ensure your own position is to find some people you like and trade feedback with them. Everyone not included in the deal will have less feedback and you will be slightly advantaged over them.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
by mementomori on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:45PM
(#23865706)
That sounds like a good strategy: form an inner circle of peers that don't have conflict of interest (preferably not sharing the same supervisor, etc.) and being vulnerable with selective people should be helpful for fine-tuning strategy, and if not, at least generate a little social power. Previously, I had the tendency to isolate and not open up to anybody, to my own detriment.