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Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
The more competitive the field, the harder it is to overtake your competition and reach your goal. Once you get there, the next hurdle is holding your position and keeping the competition at bay.
This fact of life is true for all fields. In technical industries, the race to success can be particularly nasty. It doesn't matter whether you're creating, promoting or selling a product or service. To get to that special place, you better be in top shape. That translates to being the smartest, toughest and the strongest (physically and mentally). You also need to be persistent, confident and truly believe in your talents--even when everything seems to be going wrong.
If you have enormous responsibility and you're earning a great salary, you're expected to achieve astonishing results. But you're also more vulnerable and open to intense scrutiny. Your backers and supporters are cheering you on while your competitors are watching your every move from the sidelines, waiting for you to screw up. Make too many mistakes and you're history.
If a project manager in the automotive industry, for example, hopes to ascend to superstar status, he has to be prepared to take on the biggest and riskiest projects--many of which could fail miserably. They could be aborted before they're seriously underway because of major developmental problems or irreparable differences among the …
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