I have previously written that one of the solutions to moving up the corporate ladder is being visible in the organization.

People judge, assess and create your corporate persona based on your external actions; your corporate persona defines your career.

External actions and not your good intentions is who you are at face value.

The Most Direct Solution to Any Problem (Steve Pavlina)
Hopeless Situations (Steve Pavlina)
Persistence (Seth Godin)
5 Reasons to Abandon Television (Cultivate Greatness)
Five Compelling Reasons To Become More Assertive (Positivity Blog)

I had a lot of fun in Seattle and the picture above was taken in the Whisky Bar with US SharePoint Architects and Project Managers on-shore. We partied a lot during the week long conference and worked hard during the day.

I remember one of the stories of a colleague a few years back about one of their top executives who saw employees who can party and drink a lot of booze until the wee hours of the night and get to the office the following day by 8 am as those that has the “it” factor to climb on top of the corporate ladder.

I am reading a writeup titled “Is a CEO worth 364 times the average Joe?”

Definititely not; but one thing I am sure about is they get busted more than 364 times when things go bad. Both in good and bad times, executives surrounding them are circling them like vultures waiting for the right time for a power grab. Any bad publicity of the the company goes up to the CEO absorbing every mistake of the average Joe.