Go Where Your Skill Is Valued
Within your organization, figure out what the company is good at—its core
functions—and if you want to excel there, have a bias toward one of those
categories. Google is all about engineers: the salesmen don’t do as well
(though it’s still a great place to work). Consumer packaged goods companies
are brand managers: engineers rarely make it to the C-suite. If you’re in the
discipline that drives the company, what it excels at, you will be working
with the best people on the most challenging projects, and are more likely to
be noticed by senior management. This doesn’t mean you can’t be successful
in a cost center, or that you have to make the thing the company sells. Look
at the resumes of the senior executives—if they mostly came from sales, then
the company values sales. If they are operational people, that’s the heart of
the firm, whatever it says in the ads.
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