A lot of times if you are willing and able to do things that other people can't, you can get quickly promoted. If you are seen as the kind of person who could wage an effective terrorism campaign against a random couple in Massachusetts because they wrote mean things about your Fortune 500 employer, you are in a very small club and you will be sought out when you are needed.
I would phrase it as "things other people can't or won't".
Jim Cramer wrote a book in which he described how someone told him he could have a job if he would just "go in that office over there and fire that guy". He did.
