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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“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.”
That’s anti-socialist talk. What’s going on in that tiny brain of hers? Sensing a reversal of the pendulum?
“....downplaying the impressive track record that proved she had the chops for the job.”
Stopped.reading.here.
She’s speaks as an impaired alcoholic. Alcohol probably has killed her ability to form a cogent thought.
Nobody can be that dumb without some organic disorder unless she is continuously inebriated.
When I first read the quote I found it almost unbelievable that she would say this. Everything she campaigned on was on how the wealthy need to give up their money to make things fair and equitable.
Then once I continued reading I understood. She was talking about her own personal story in politics. Things are a lot different when they are on the other foot. Although she is talking about politics and vying for power. The point is to win and defeat one’s opponent.
What does that even mean? Everyone, no matter how inept can achieve success?
I think Kamala projects too much.
Harris once again showing why she’ll never have decent loyal staff to help her achieve anything of worth.
Provincial, oooh, she’s been reading the dictionary again.
Check she abuses the use of stupidity.
Well... I’m torn.
It’s still Hillary’s turn to be president.
But I also can’t help wanting to see Kamala on the ticket in 2028.
The hillarity is great enough to justify the existential risk of her possibly winning. And we all have to die of something, right?
What a load of BS. Who inserted the new programming chip in her cranium? The entire democrat party and her entire campaign was run on victimhood and “get the rich” and “get whitey.” She doesn’t believe a bit of it.
Sure , she’s right on target . Look at her she spread her legs to the top.
WHAT IS THE POOL FOR THE NUMBER OF BOTTLES SHE GOES THRU IN A WEEK???
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