I thought this was a very insightful read. When I was starting out in my career I pointed out a huge problem in the company to the CEO, I naively expected to get a gold star for having such deep insight into the business that I, a technical guy, could reason out the issue.

He threw a fit, I think it had been building. It was naive of me to think he didn't realize the issue, it was poor form of me to not come with at least an idea of how the issue could be resolved. I took that lesson to heart. My motto, "Don't dwell on problems for which you cannot propose a credible plan to address them."

Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391735