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When Success Is the Engine of Failure
I once interviewed a man who worked for a large company. He described a problem and his eventual personal transformation. After graduating from a five-year engineering program in four years, he had taken a job with his current organization. This engineer was seen as a technically competent, innovative, and action-oriented person and was promoted several times. After his last promotion, however, he went through several difficult years. For the first time, he received serious negative feedback, his ideas and proposals were regularly rejected, and he was passed over for promotion. In reflection, he said:
It was awful. Everything was always changing, yet nothing ever seemed to happen. The people above me ...
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