"He describes himself as intense and focused on getting things done rather than playing into corporate politics. That attitude might be great for shipping products - but it's also fertile ground for making workplace rivals. Kirk tells me he's had a few rivals during his career, which includes stints at Amazon and Google. Sometimes they resented the way he operated, or wanted to compete with him to have a broader scope at the company."
"In a 2019 survey of 7,000 UK workers from hiring platform Totaljobs, six in 10 people said they had at least one "work enemy." Of those, 43% said they had more than one, while 8% said most of their colleagues fit the bill (maybe these people should take pause: If you think everyone is your enemy, you might be the villain). Most often, work enemies were the same gender as the person they vexed, and interacted with them daily."
Henry Kirk worked as a software developer and manager in hypercompetitive Big Tech, prioritizing results over corporate politics. His intense, task-focused approach helped ship products but also created workplace rivals during stints at Amazon and Google. Rivalries were often quiet and superficially friendly, yet sometimes exhausting and personally challenging. Kirk viewed such competition as sharpening his abilities and a sign of success. Simmering, bitter feuds are common in modern work, with notable tech conflicts between major executives. A 2019 survey of 7,000 UK workers found six in ten had at least one work enemy, often a same-gender colleague interacted with daily.
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