The value of humility depends very much on the culture in which you are operating.
Yes. So, to be more specific, I am usually thinking about an IT company in Europe, where the bosses EDIT: don't care about the details of the development process, so they cannot judge an individual's contribution well, and they mostly see the team output, where the details are mostly in a "black box".
I think you underrate the effect of broken promises and failing to deliver.
If you are a member of a team, and the team delivers the product, how would the boss know whether it happened (a) because of your contribution, (b) regardless of your contribution, or even (c) despite your contribution?
You frequently do lose social status when you destroy another person. There the phrase of giving someone the ropes to hang themselves.
I agree completely here.
In one review of the scientific evidence on LW there's the conclusion that modesty increases career success while efforts at self-promotion and being assertive rather diminish it.
Does it depend of profession?
It depends on the people skills of the boss. There are people you can impress by bragging, usually people with low self esteem. Other people simply get annoyed.
Social standing in software team is about more than technical skills. It's also about the quality of relationships you have with the other people in your company.
Software people generally don't play golf together, but in other areas that's how relationships get build.
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