Watch who stays loyal when there’s nothing to gain. At work, that’s the only loyalty worth counting.

Loyalty while things are going well is indistinguishable from convenience. The test only runs when you have nothing left to offer, when you are between things or the room has decided you are on the way out. Most people quietly step back, and that is ordinary rather than evil. The few who do not are a very short list, and the list is accurate.

Notice who still answers when you are not useful. Keep that list, and get onto somebody else’s version of it by checking in on a person whose stock is down. Doing it when there is nothing in it for you is the whole point.