More great advice from Alexandra Levit’s BLIND SPOTS, a book you should buy for everyone on your team, as an antidote to the nonsensical easy answers being sold by so called experts. Indeed, the whole book is organized around persuasively dispelling ten too-good-to-be-true myths, belief in which so often holds people back in their careers (and makes them problematic as employees):

Myth #1: Overnight success is possible.
Myth #2: Controversy will propel your career.
Myth #3: Employers want you to be yourself.
Myth #4: Being good at your job trumps everything.
Myth #5: It’s best to climb the ladder as fast as possible.
Myth #6: You’ll get more money because you earned it.
Myth #7: The problem isn’t you, it’s the organization.
Myth #8: You won’t get laid off, you’re too essential.
Myth #9: If only you could leave Corporate America, everything would be perfect.
Myth #10: Do what you love, the money will follow.

Buy it for everyone!