Do the right thing and wait to be fired.

From Google engineer Chen Yiming: Do the right thing and wait to be fired. New Google employees (we call "Nooglers") often ask me how I make myself so efficient. I half-jokingly tell them that it's very simple: I choose to do the right thing, for Google, for the world, and then go back to my seat, waiting to be fired. If I am not fired, then I have done the right thing - for everyone. If I am fired, then I have chosen the wrong boss. In short, in both cases, I win. This is my career development strategy.