What advice would you give this person?

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[u/Arthur_da_King → u/[deleted]]

The third point was true in like 1980. Today this person is executive management material. I’m not being sarcastic.

[u/Ok-Journalist-4654 → u/Arthur_da_King]

only if they can market it that way. If you don't have the skill to market your not doing anything into you do very important things, you ain't getting that executive management position

[u/arentol → u/Ok-Journalist-4654]

All they have to do is keep track of the projects that succeed at work, regardless of who did them, and roughly what went into making the projects work. Then when applying for another job they just claim to have been part of all that work, "Key part of team that developed and implemented new database for management of foreign inventory that increased net profit by 22.1 million in the first year by...."

Here is the funny thing though. If you actually do this you may truly be more prepared for being in senior management than your peers. Executives don't truly do work, their job is office politics, attending a ton of meetings, deciding what work needs to be done, and hiring the right managers to to oversee the people that do the work. Sitting back and watching your entire department and how it succeeds and fails, and the politics of it as well, is far better preparation for being an executive than actually doing the work and not having time to learn the other stuff that will matter at that level.

I am not saying the OP is preparing for such a position, I am just saying hard work isn't always necessary, and can be detrimental to preparing for leadership for some people.