Your Promotion Process Is a Memory Contest
You didn't get promoted. The explanation: you need to be more visible. Visible doing what, to whom, and why was that standard a secret? This week Chris examines an explicitly hypothetical promotion decision and asks whether the employee's case could survive without their manager in the room. The alternative is not a giant dossier or a guaranteed yes. It is a clear next-role standard, specific work that supports the decision, and an honest explanation when the answer is no. Chris also challenges the idea that putting a judgment in a spreadsheet automatically makes it fair.
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