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Posted on 11/07/2025 5:44:40 PM PST by simpson96
Many workers climb the career ladder believing that someone else has to fall off for them to rise. But former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says that’s not only wrong—it’s what’s holding people back.
“There are far too many people in this world and in professional life who approach things with a zero-sum game,” Harris said recently on The Diary of a CEO podcast. “If I have more, you have less. And it is incredibly shortsighted.”
Unfortunately, she added, it’s the exact mindset that may have hurt her chances of becoming the chief of state. Harris had sensed for “quite some time” that White House staffers were stifling her career accomplishments while working alongside former U.S. president Joe Biden—downplaying the impressive track record that proved she had the chops for the job. A symptom of that same scarcity mindset.
Instead of hyping up her career accomplishments, presidential employees shrouded them—and Harris felt it was an intentional choice to make sure she didn’t outshine Biden. But it may have backfired when she stepped up as the Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential race against Donald Trump, which she recently spoke about at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women summit.
Looking back now, the 61-year-old Democrat said that suppressing others’ success doesn’t protect your own—it just undermines the entire mission.
“It’s actually quite provincial thinking when you’re talking about the stakes that were at play in our administration and, of course, in the election.”
Harris wasn’t blind to the way she was handled by presidential staffers—but she didn’t understand the full extent until after the election.
Stories spread, especially of how White House employees didn’t protect her against media attacks despite having the ability to do so. In her new book, 107 Days, Harris wrote that staff were “adding fuel” to negative narratives. In fact, she felt the president’s inner circle seemed “fine with it” and that she should be “knocked down” a bit more.
“It was clear to me in terms of just the challenges with getting them to uplift, getting them to defend, especially when there were inaccurate, unfair attacks,” Harris said. “To the extent that the vice president is being attacked, resources were available but not used to defend the vice president in the way that they could have.”
Harris drew the conclusion that staffers were holding her back in an effort to set Biden up to win his second election. But when he dropped out of the running just four months shy of the U.S. presidential voting day, Harris was rushed to pick up the pieces. She waged her campaign as the Democratic nominee, but lost out to sitting President Trump. The damage from Biden’s inner circle suppressing her achievements and letting negative narratives run wild was done.
In other words, success isn’t a limited resource—it’s a pie big enough for everyone to get a slice. Now, the Democratic Party has learned that lesson the hard way. “It was counterproductive,” Harris concluded. “We rose and fell together.”
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Nice try, but no. It was you. You were on the ballot. And you were simply the worst Presidential candidate EVER.
And Walz....aka....Tampon Tim.....You folks were just nuts....
Harris had sensed for “quite some time” that White House staffers were stifling her career accomplishments while working alongside former U.S. president Joe Biden. What are they sweetheart?
I think what we have here is a Harris blame salad.
She's not wrong, at least not as a general premise. But this is politics, and in politics it's a full tilt shit-fight amongst friend and foe alike, ally and adversary ... they're all slithering in the swamp together.
Or, as Hyman Roth said in GF2: "THIS is the business we've chosen"
Somebody taught her a new word
How precious
““It’s actually quite provincial thinking when you’re talking about the stakes that were at play in our administration and, of course, in the election.”
Harris likely didn’t come up with this. Possibly Obama style BS or someone like that. Nice try though Ms. K.
Kamala Harris says there’s enough room for everyone to be successful—and that professionals who think otherwise are guilty of ‘provincial thinking’
In other words, success isn’t a limited resource—it’s a pie big enough for everyone to get a slice. Now, the Democratic Party has learned that lesson the hard way. “It was counterproductive,” Harris concluded. “We rose and fell together.”
Was it ‘Provincial Pie Thinking'?
Most people don’t want to become professional fluffers, Kammy.
Sorry, but Harris was the ultimate counter-example. I can think of no ladder of success that she could climb without ...er...uh...well, we all know. In her whole empty sorry live, she has demonstrated only one known ability.
Maybe she was thinking back to her days in Canada where there are provinces rather than states for administration areas.
What she really means is everyone owning a crappy EV and all the box wine you can drink.
“Everyone gets a trophy!” sounds better than
(Lennon/McCartney
I’m A Loser”
I’m a loser
I’m a loser
And I’m not what I appear to be
heh
“ “There are far too many people in this world and in professional life who approach things with a zero-sum game,” Harris said recently on The Diary of a CEO podcast. “If I have more, you have less. And it is incredibly shortsighted.”
No way she could have said this because it makes sense and it doesn’t follow Marxist ideas
If this is even part true, it pales compared to what the RINOs did to Sarah Palin.
“What are they sweetheart?”
Exactly. When she said “...downplaying the impressive track record that proved she had the chops for the job,...” I thought, why didn’t she tell us about that impressive record during the campaign? Too modest?
Harris must be a) desperate, and b) completely insane.
She is easily impressed — with herself.
She and the Dems just can not stop their hatred for rural America, thus provincial thinking. We grow their food, we find and produce the oil, we mine, farm, and produce everything our nation needs with the exception of crazy liberals. Please note: Heels up Harris is not "PROVINCIAL THINKING." It is simply negotiation between the elites which provincial thinking people would not understand. Willie Brown declines to comment but has a smile on his face like Schroeder's Cat. Heisenberg is amused.
What does this headline even mean????
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