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“In my own experience, more opportunities are actually presented when the company is not successful than when it is... While you're wasting your time helping the company succeed he's looking for failures to swoop in and save the day.”
― Brendan Reid, Stealing the Corner Office: The Winning Career Strategies They'll Never Teach You in Business School

“Winning is not determined in practice by talent or work ethic... In fact, only half the successful executives I've worked with are competent when measured in conventional terms. The other half get there a different way.”
― Brendan Reid, Stealing the Corner Office: The Winning Career Strategies They'll Never Teach You in Business School

“Islam has strong social
aspects based around the concept of ummah – the community of believers –
and expressions of individualism or nonconformity tend to be frowned
upon. Members are expected to pull together and behave (at least in public)
in ways that uphold its Islamic ethos. Thus, when someone breaks away
from established norms – especially if they do so publicly – they are liable
to be seen as damaging communal solidarity”
― Brian Whitaker, Arabs Without God: Atheism and freedom of belief in the Middle East

“Your company's success is not a pre-requisite for your personal success... Most of my own advancement has come in the time of corporate failure and not success. And this principle is a key weapon in the arsenal of the incompetent executive who rises through the ranks while you tread waters.”
― Brendan Reid, Stealing the Corner Office: The Winning Career Strategies They'll Never Teach You in Business School