Career Advice

The biggest key in climbing to greater career success is learning to let go!

Rudy was the most highly regarded engineer in the company, at least that’s what his peers thought. He was energetic, likable and took on any challenge put before him, which he usually handled in an effortless manner. He was a role model. Everyone wondered how one person could possibly be so talented in so many areas. Rudy could develop a complex process for growing a 30 Angstrom high-k dielectric film on a 45 nm transistor on one day and create a marketing plan for a newly developed product on the next. This was not the guy you wanted to compete with for a promotion. He just had too much going for him.

Sitting alone in the company cafeteria, David, a young budding process engineer, almost suffered major brain trauma from...