Comment by teddyh

> If your work isn’t clearly connected to company profit, your position is unstable

In my experience, only salespeople are clearly connected to profit. Everyone else is percieved as a cost.

> In other words, you’re probably depending on a kind-hearted manager (or CEO) who personally values your work.

Yes, this is the position for everybody except salepeople. Which means, in turn, that focusing your efforts to make the company profitable, as the articles advocates, is a grave mistake. You should focus on making your immediate manager profitable and successful. (For those who are fresh out of school, this is often a wildly different goal.)

The only situation in which the article’s advice makes any sense is if your immediate manager is also the company owner, who benefits personally and immediately if the company’s profits go up.