Promotion Systems

After read Promotion Systems and Promotion Systems Redux, it seems the best choice is to be the first few person in a team or organization, if you cannot make or join a startup company. Then, you could be one of the seniors, who can set/influence the rules for their own benefit. So, just take the risk you could bear, and be the first few ones at corresponding different levels.

There seems no better systems, or again "no silver bullet".
If the rules are very clear, then the rules will be gamed.
This might be the reason, why the rules are blurred in most aging systems. But, rules are still there, this is called 潜规则 in Chinese, and finally dominate the system partly or completely ...