| Tip 26 | Know Your (Corporate) Anatomy |
 | [Brown Belt] For your first year you don’t need to know what marketing does. Once past that, it’s time to broaden your perspective. |
Like people, every company will have its own personality, but they all tend to have the same basic building blocks. At a technology company, engineering tends to have a medieval view of their place in the corporate universe: “everything revolves around us.” However, it’s important to understand that engineering is just one part of the company; there are parts that are just as essential to the company’s success. “Now the body is not made up of one part but of many…If one part suffers, ...
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