The Road to Success is the Road to Failure

Science and engineering is task oriented, and oftentimes reflected as oriented around individual or very small team efforts, part and parcel around expertise, perfection in output, highly complicated communications within our groups, and the resultant rewards of such achievement. However, this can result in significant issues particularly as one evolves from being an individual achiever (say, as a junior member of a project team) to when we need to manage others, which requires us more to advise, assist, and assess, with a pragmatic understanding of organizational goals and ability to communicate diversely within the firm. This requires us to change the paradigm that allowed us to be successful in the past, and develop new ways to operate in order to best serve our respective organizations.