What If I Don’t Want to Succeed?
The managerial bias in success narratives
7 min readNov 21, 2023
I look up at skyscrapers with fascination and dread. What’s it like to own one or likely several of these, or to sit at the helm of a multimillion-dollar company commanding hundreds to thousands of employees spread transnationally? My smaller mind can’t fathom the scale. Just thinking about the massive managerial load sends me reeling.
