Suppose, on the other hand, you’re not very skilled on the projects you have been assigned. One more hour doesn’t matter—you’d design the same lousy coffee machine. In which case, you might as well invest that extra hour in politics and lobbying. The extra effort might help win you a promotion. The greater your skill on the projects to which you have been assigned, which we can call project–skill fit, the more likely you are to choose project work. The lower your project–skill fit, the more likely you are to choose politics.
Office politics. Promoted to your highest level of incompetence.
