Carla Harris

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · How to Get Ahead When Everything Feels Uncertain: The New Rules of Work, Confidence, and Success · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

For two weeks, you study your environment and you say to yourself, who has a seat at the decision-making table?

And if you can't figure that out, then you just simply ask someone.

Mel, I walked around for years not understanding how decisions were being made, right?

Everybody would talk about the promotion committee, the promotion committee, but it wasn't really clear to me who was on the promotion committee until one day I asked somebody.

And it was another female managing director.

I was not yet an MD.

And I said, talk to me about this promotion committee because this is an important year for me.

I don't understand how this thing works.

I've been hearing about it for years.

And she said, well, it's a group of people.

There are four or five people that are always there because they're on the operating committee or they're on the management committee.

And then there are different department heads that may or may not be the same from year to year.

And not only did she tell me who they were, she actually drew a picture of

of the table and she said, this one sits next to this one, this one sits next to this, this is how that works, right?

And I couldn't believe I'd walked around for so long in such ignorance, just thinking, just make sure you do a good job, make sure you do it, not really understanding that dynamic.

So that's the first thing you should do.

Who has a seat at the decision-making table and how are these decisions made?

The second thing is now you say, of the people that I know who have a seat at the table, who has visibility into my work?

And it doesn't have to be your direct boss, but it needs to be somebody that has some visibility into your work.

So it could be somebody who's in an adjacent group or something like that.

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