This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. The author discusses making compromises early in a career in order to make it up the ladder and then taking action based on values when in a powerful leadership position creates a problem because “waiting it out” in this way regarding those compromises can change a person.