So don’t complain about how life isn’t fair, or that your organizational culture isn’t healthy, or that your boss is a jerk.5 You have both the responsibility and the potential to change your situation, either in your present job or in some new place. Stop waiting for things to get better or for other people to acquire power and use it in a benevolent fashion to improve the situation. It’s up to you to find—or create—a better place for yourself. And it’s up to you to build your own path to power. As former Bay Area radio personality Scoop Nisker used to say, “If you don’t like the news, go out
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