This Chapter mainly focused on how to get the best out of the place you work for in order to benefit your success as well as your team's. One point made a few times was to under-promise and over-deliver, which means to focus on the task at hand as given to you by your manager, but over deliver what is expected of you. That way, it saves work for your manager to do as well as proves that you can go above and beyond what is expected of you at your current level. Some other points of advice included were to take risks and don't fear failure. I found this to be particularly helpful because we all have to dare to take risks in order to have greater chances of advancing.
Two ways that your environment at the workplace can prevent you from succeeding because of either bad people or bad organizations. Insecure managers who are afraid of failure and hoard information for their own benefit should be considered poisonous people, as well as office politicians. Bad organizations are obsessed with titles and organizational hierarchy, and don't value engineers and their work as much.
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