How to reach $1M in annual compensation as an employee

How to reach $1M in annual compensation as an employee(marketingbs.com)

23 points by mailshanx 5 years ago | 9 comments

  As you advance in any career, jobs become more and more
  similar. There is a huge difference between a janitor, a
  dentist and a marketer, but the manager overseeing the
  janitors, dentists and marketers have a lot more in common.
  The VPs in charge of the managers of janitors, dentists and
  marketers have even more in common.

This is the kind of thought process that leads to incompetent leadership of technical people, by non-technical ones, with disastrous consequences.

ID1452319 5 years ago | |

Why do you say that? The best manager I've ever had came from a non-technical background. She was good because she knew how to manage people. Not technical people, just people.

On the other hand the worst manager I've ever had came from a technical background.

I have no reason to believe that my best manager could successfully manage a team of janitors, dentists, marketers or software developers.

Traster 5 years ago | | |

There is people management, and then there is management. A good people manager could manager the janitors as well as the marketers, but they aren't going to have the expertise to be able to actually put together a vision for what a team should be doing. That comes from domain expertise, not from people management skills. People managers are very good at lower level organisational roles because you don't need to set vision, but beyond relatively small management roles the key skill is expertise -because everyone already has people skills at that point. Employing good people managers to be senior leaders results in stagnant companies.

justinclift 5 years ago | | |

Interesting. I'm come across several non-technical managers making extraordinarily bad decisions - major company direction level - even when very directly told "Do Not Do This, It's not feasible" by their technical staff.

It's never gone well. :(

Traster 5 years ago |

>This last section is a little too sensitive for public consumption. If you would like to read it, just submit your email and I will send you the content about negotiations.

This is how little respect this author has for your intelligence. Subscribe to my newsletter to get the super secret last bit of my article.

I was willing to give this guy the benefit of the doubt for most of the article. Never mind that it's incredibly banal, obvious advice from someone who followed a career that almost perfectly describes my idea of someone who doesn't really do anything.

His description of the interview process is hilarious, because the interviews are so transparently uninterested in finding out about any concrete skills the employee has.

brian_herman__ 5 years ago |

Reading the article he is not currently getting $1M in annual compensation. He is promoting his blog and book.

wodenokoto 5 years ago | |

Well, the website is basically called "marketing bullshit dot com"

kochikame 5 years ago |

Be really, really good at something extremely rare and extremely valuable, while knowing how valuable that makes you.

Do I get a prize?

As you advance in any career, jobs become more and more similar. There is a huge difference between a janitor, a dentist and a marketer, but the manager overseeing the janitors, dentists and marketers have a lot more in common. The VPs in charge of the managers of janitors, dentists and marketers have even more in common.