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[–] [S] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because leadership at many companies suffers from the recency effect and only remembers what you've done for them lately.

"I saved us lots of money in staffing this quarter" gets rewarded, not "I'm leaving the short-term money on the table now so that we'll be more successful in 7 years"

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