If you want to keep your job in the years just before retirement, don't be this guy.

I knew my days were numbered as soon as the new org chart came out. It was complicated, with squiggles and two-sided arrows. It was like a corporate Escher print, and I couldn't -- for the life of me -- figure out where I belonged in the company that had been my employer for six years.

Attitudes need to change, says the man who brought Tim Cook to Apple.