One thing I love about my job is that whenever we exceed our monthly goal every person in the department gets a bonus; from the manager to the part time new hire. If you worked anytime in the month we broke our goal you get a bonus. It is based on your hours worked so working more does get you a bigger bonus but…

Just be cool. If you’re cool and someone still builds up a grudge just because you’re good at your job, they suck anyway.

One thing I highly recommend: be generous with public praise for your colleagues — provided you are authentic about it. Whether it’s in a team meeting or a Reply All email, responding to praise from your boss with “it was a team effort and X deserves a ton of the credit” is incredibly powerful. If you genuinely are a…

Tall Poppy Syndrome. What made me laugh out loud was the idea that a manager would get on top of this because, if anything, I’ve only ever seen them play it up for their own benefit.