Success Quote by Andrea Jung

Career advice rarely sounds like a loyalty oath, but Andrea Jung’s line quietly rewires what “good leadership” is supposed to mean. She’s not talking about inspiration, mission, or even performance. She’s talking about sponsorship: the tangible, political work of moving someone’s name forward when they aren’t in the room. In corporate life, that’s the real currency, and Jung names it without sentimentality.

The phrasing is doing strategic work. “I think it’s critical” softens the claim just enough to seem reasonable, then lands like a non-negotiable. “Feel” matters as much as reality because advancement is mediated through perception: access to stretch assignments, visibility, and the confidence to take risks without getting punished for them. The sentence is essentially a warning against bosses who treat you as labor rather than talent-in-development.

There’s also a gendered and generational context hovering behind it. Jung rose in an era when companies were happy to hire ambitious women but less eager to promote them into power. “Committed to advancing your career” signals more than mentorship; it implies advocacy in systems where merit alone doesn’t self-execute. It’s a rebuttal to the old corporate myth that if you keep your head down and work hard, the ladder will find you.

Subtext: choose your manager like you choose your future. Not the nicest person, not the most brilliant, but the one willing to spend their own institutional capital on you.