Glory
Glory is another quality that varies between PA positions (noticing a pattern yet?), and most of it goes to the person or persons at the very top of the chain. This is the nature of the beast. Your budget management skills may be the only reason the mayor's Historic Redevelopment Initiative was a success, but at the end of the day she's the one who gets to use the big scissors during the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Sometimes, though, even the grandest, most epic public works project can be more of a reputation destroyer than a reputation builder. As an example, let's take a look at Boston's infamous Big Dig. This monstrosity of a public works project was imagined, developed, implemented, and completely screwed up by dozens and dozens of public administrators at all levels of state and local government, as well as the private sector.
The project took years longer to complete and cost tens of billions of dollars more than first expected. And who gets credit for it? Nobody, that's who. Because even though the city is much less congested, a lot prettier, a better destination for businesses, and an improved place to live, after decades in development everyone's just happy that the darn thing is finished.