Why not getting promoted made me more successful

Spencer Platt/Getty Images I left my last job because I didn't get promoted. Actually, I left because I didn't see a path to promotion — not then and not any time in the foreseeable future. That lost hope is really what made me throw my hands up. Even though on a day-to-day basis I still loved my job, I had to leave. I'd checked all the boxes. Client work was done well, winning proposals were submitted, and my team was managed with record-low turnover for eight years. And yet, my title remaine...