That advice has become so ingrained that people assume the axe is going to fall as soon as you Tweet something critical about your manager or write a Facebook status update chronicling the ten reasons you hate your boss.

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And it occurs to me that the novel I'd most love to write would be a 21st-century update of Achebe's final novel, "Anthills of the Savannah" (1987).

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If you like to write, offer to draft letters and emails or update the company website.

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