Being competitive correlates with advancement at managerial levels. Being competent, productive, and pleasant to work with is enough to put any individual contr

Being competitive correlates with advancement at managerial levels. Being competent, productive, and pleasant to work with is enough to put any individual contributor role within your grasp. Whether or not either of those are related to "success" is up to you. After ten years, I've started equating success with happiness, and as a result my decisions have changed drastically.