The Net flattened the corporate hierarchy, systematically stripping most of the rungs out of the ladder. The trouble is, fewer and fewer Web players are motivated by such extrinsic rewards. For Web professionals today, the path ahead may not necessarily be higher, wider, or bigger. Careers have become a series of assignments. Skill sets and frontline experience are the coin of this new realm.
Titles are meaningless.
Job descriptions a relic of yesterday. You're never there anyway. Seniority, the gold ring of the traditional career ladder, may actually be a handicap. The traditional career ladder is as obsolete as the keys to the executive washroom. The old career-ladder paradigm took outstanding technical people at the peak of their creative years and more or less forced them into administration and management positions, adding responsibilities for which, by temperament and training, few were prepared.