“what makes a survivor is not entirely predictable. Certain qualities seem particularly useful, however. Wisdom in choosing alliances and ruthlessness in abandoning them when no longer useful. An ability to discretely blame others for your own failures and undermine those who might otherwise pose a threat. Positioning yourself as somehow indespensable, whatever your faults. How failures rise - 182 how a lawyer who was having an affair with the boss got saved ina merger - 193”
