Quiet excellence
The best network engineer is the one you never saw.
That used to be the ideal, quiet excellence, systems that just worked, and engineers who stayed behind the scenes keeping everything running smoothly.
But times have changed. Corporate visibility and personal branding have become just as important as technical skill. You have to be seen, not just effective.
It’s like a goalkeeper who doesn’t move during a penalty kick, even though statistically the chance of the ball going straight down the middle isn’t small, standing still looks like doing nothing.
In today’s world, being invisible can sometimes be mistaken for being inactive.