In one HBR article, https://hbr.org/2021/02/promotions-arent-just-about-your-skills-theyre-about-your-relationships
The author says
“when you help others, you’ll feel great, and they will thank you for it. I love receiving notes from former team members and colleagues about what they’re doing now and how our work together helped them. It’s one of the reasons I became an executive coach.”
The lack of nuance and simple-mindednesses of such concepts, with little applicability in the modern workplace context is annoying.