In case you expected some deep insight on the topic, you'll be disappointed. I just couldn't help showing the two last Dilbert strips (May 18, May 19).

By the way, I have an MBA. And it's great to laugh about it sometimes :)

First it was what you know.

Then, who you know.

Later, it became who knows you.

Now it is who appears to know you.

Doesn't it look like a slow drift toward the superficial?

From the book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists, written by Neil Strauss.

It's not enough to just be yourself, you have to be your best self.

This one used to circulate in the form of a joke in my first workplace 12 years ago. For some reason I still remember it, so it should hold some truth. The author is unknown.

A good manager is a bi-directional bullshit filter.

Do you often feel you are the "kind one" at work? Listen to the wisdom of Paul Arden.

You must not confuse being good with being liked.