(Photo credit: Lars Plougmann)
We have all seen it in our careers: people who we would have gone on to be the tops in their company or industry but who end up shooting themselves in the foot. It could be a star sales executive, a top billing lawyer, or a rock star up-and-coming executive. When we first met them, we might have said that they were “scary smart.”Their intelligence is intimidating. They might have gone to an Ivy League college or a top 10 Business or Law School. They might have worked previously at the best of the best companies before coming to ours.And yet their careers got suddenly derailed — and always by their own actions. We often asked ourselves: How could such a smart person do such a dumb thing? And sometimes we might be looking at ourselves in the mirror when we ask the question.
So here are the top 8 ways that smart people shoot themselves
and their careers in the foot in the dumbest ways:
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