Some of the most brilliant quotes I see are from the ancient Chinese and I just ran into a great one from Confucius—

Choose a job you love, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.

Ain’t that the truth! And it’s especially true for people who choose to manage.

I say choose because not all people should manage, it’s not their skill, and it often results in perfect proof that the Peter Principle is still alive and well.

But people doing good work deserve promotions, so what can you do?

Create a duel-career ladder in whatever business or department you run. It’s simply a way to receive recognition and compensation without becoming a manager.

In engineering it looks something like this

Do you have something similar in your company?

Would you like to?

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