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data-ottawa 4 hours ago

One of my favourite bosses ever was a VP who kept a bankers box at her desk and very few personal affects.

She told me she kept it there because her job was to make decisions and get fired or leave if she was wrong. She was right about so many of her choices, I would have followed her into anything. Then one day I came in and her desk was empty -- she had an apparently epic argument with the C suite and disagreed with their path so she left (never found out if that was a quit or fired). The team got a new VP, but I requested to be moved to a different team as I wasn't aligned with the new vision.

When you get to a certain level part of your job becomes owning the decisions and getting fired.