“Being a ‘superstar’ can hurt your career”
“Most employees think that the best way to show value to their boss and get promoted is to aggressively claim credit and ownership over everything they do,” BlackBerry CEO John Chen wrote in a LinkedIn post earlier this year. “While it’s important to be recognized for what you do and the value you add, grabbing the glory is going to turn off your coworkers.”
It can also turn off your boss, he warns.
“Trying too hard to show you’re a superstar tells me that you only care about what’s best for you, and not the company as a whole,” he says.