Is it even possible to be successful doing your job?

Link: Seth's Blog: The ever-worsening curse of the cog.

The end result is that it's essentially impossible to become successful or well off doing a job that is described and measured by someone else.

Worth reading the italics twice, I think.

The only chance our country (your country, depends where you live), your economy and most of all, your family has to get ahead is this: make up new rules.

People who make up new rules continue to be in very short supply.

Think about it when it is time for that Performance Review.