[quote=Bostonian]
My experience is quite the opposite... the individual who takes twice as long is praised as a hard worker, while the one who breezes through tasks with higher-quality results is constantly being pestered by management, because his far more efficient work performance leaves him with too much time to browse gifted forums on company time.
Or, loaded up with tasks and do 10 times as much work as anyone else while also providing the solutions for others who are "dead in the water."
Add in some managers afraid to work with you because you will get in their business. And its not good.
Or senior execs afraid to assign people or tasks to you because you will get things done with the same people they could not get anything done with before.
Or vendors who have to have their noses put on the problem to get them to actually fix their stuff.
Or people who love to work for you because you praise them, give them clear direction, check their work, let them take time off for their family, don't mind if they surf the web as long as they deliver, don't pester them with crap, and work just as hard as they do.