Rules of Corporate Management - Part 1 I have spent a lot of years working in corporations small, large and massive. I have climbed the corporate ladder and have gathered three rules that are invariable true. Follow these rules and you will survive. They come in the form of fables. Rule 1 One day, a turkey is walking down the road. He looks up, and sees a raven sitting on the upper branches of a tree. He looks at the raven, and says, ""Hey Raven... It must be nice to be all the way up there. I wish I could get up there, but I'm just too tired"". The raven replies, ""well, Mr. Turkey, there's some cow dung there on the ground. It's still got nutrients and such. Why don't you peck at that for a while and see if you get more energy."" So the turkey pecks at the dung for a while, and with his strength up, is able to hop / fly up to one of the higher branches on the tree. After a little while, a farmer comes around. He sees the turkey sitting up in the top of the tree and says, ""Hello Mr. Turkey"". He then proceeds to take out a shotgun, and blasts the turkey dead and takes him home for dinner. What's the moral of our story? Bullshit may get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.