The fact that you are spending time on assignments that are not using your unique skills means you aren't really reaching your potential... it can hurt your compensation, hurt your promotion and certainly does not give you any leverage when you try to negotiate.

Lise Vesterlund

Lise Vesterlund is a behavioral and experimental economist, and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1997 to 2001 she was assistant professor at the Iowa State University. She is on the board of editors of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and of the Experimental Economics journal. Since 2018, she is a visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Economics.

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