lucky people and not so lucky people

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Have you ever experienced that someone under you was stepping up a ladder in his/ her carrier so fast, that you were left behind several steps? I did. Like most people who ever experienced it, I got mad, grumbled and tried to seek supports from other colleagues. I put in words that others began questioning the boss' motive in promoting someone from under me into a higher position. I thrived in others' sleazy suspicion of the way this someone took to get a promotion. I became the monster. Knowing there was no chance the decision ever changes, as what the boss said is the rule, I pitifully admitted that there are people who get lucky and there are people who are not so lucky. What's the difference between these two people, shame that I found this out much later in my carrier, is gut. Lucky people, as I named them, have gut. They have gut to present themselves as a potential executive ready to take on higher challenges. They have gut in challenging themselves with skills essential for the position, like: skill in speech, skill in dealing with people and skill in organizing and motivation a team. They have gut to enhance their networks as a source of chances and information. They also have gut in stepping on others and ignoring their feelings to get a promotion. I did not write the last one as a censure. It does not pay to wait for others to open up chances for us. We have to find those chances ourselves and act accordingly.