NEW ARTICLE: You’ve done the work. You’ve delivered results. And somehow the person who got the recognition or the promotion wasn’t you.
Most people blame politics. Or timing. Or luck.
But what if the real problem was never about effort? What if it was about what you could see and what you couldn’t?
AI is bringing about changes inside organizations right now. People are starting to see layers that used to take years of tenure to recognize. The patterns in how decisions actually get made. The distance between what leadership says and what leadership responds to. The invisible rules that determine whose work lands and whose doesn’t.
And here’s the question I keep coming back to, whether you’re in leadership or not: how do you feel about people around you suddenly having that kind of clarity?
Because what they do with it is where the real leadership work is needed.
I wrote about it this week. Two people. Same company. Same access. Very different outcomes.
Read the article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/observant-climb-david-dean-0l2oc/?trackingId=c8FpDMK4KAZ2eEvQy45ROg%3D%3D