How to: Get ahead by moving back.(techniques of company management)(Brief Article)

I'm a big fan of demotions. Ah, let me put that another way: I think it makes perfect sense for people to move up and own a career ladder.

(Horrors! what can she be thinking? Career success a ways has been defined as up, up, up.) OK, so I'm swimming against the tide, but I know there is a secret group of believers who silently are wishing they could go back to the job they really want and escape the prison that is their job now. They yearn for the day when taking a voluntary demotion would be a PC thing to do, instead of the career crusher it is today.

Imagine the relief of a sales manager who could escape the endless rounds of meetings and corporate politics …