Before [[T. S. Eliot]] was able to make a living as a publisher, he was a clerk at Lloyd’s Bank. Eliot’s boss once said, patronizingly, that if Eliot played his cards right, he might even be lucky enough to become a branch manager. Of course, Eliot was focused on writing poetry that would eventually win him a Nobel Prize, not on becoming a branch manager. He needed a steady income and a steady job so that he could go home in the evenings and write. If Eliot’s boss had wanted to retain him, he should have figured out how to let him leave an hour earlier each day, not encouraged him to put in the extra effort that a promotion would likely entail. --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[teaching-anecdotes]], [[roles]], [[career-development]], [[culture]], [[management]], **Source** — [[202303281533 - B - Radical Candor]]