It's With Me. I'll Sort It Out.

Companies have never needed people with a problem-solving instinct more than they do now.
Being invisible, nice, and obedient is not a path to professional relevance.

For decades, families, schools, universities, and companies have provided each other with evidence that the promise is real: “Study, work hard, be competent. The system rewards you.”
It is a romantic idea. But it is not entirely true. 

Organizations are social systems. They interpret. They favor. They distort. They ignore. They hesitate. They remember some. They forget others.

Effort, talent, and discipline matter, but they are rarely enough.
Careers also depend on reputation, context, exposure, a sense of opportunity, political savvy—and that old, uncivilized, and persistent variable that so many like to underestimate: luck.

Prospering requires acknowledging this and also understanding that no organization moves forward when everyone expects “someone” to solve the problem. Strong teams are built by people who step in, take responsibility, look at what still needs to be done, and say with pride: “I’ll do it. I’ll solve it.”

Provocative, candid, and deeply human, without cynicism but also without naivety, this book is born from that—from the attempt to name and understand what really matters in careers and organizations.