People will give you huge lists which will disorient more than they help. Let me give you a very short list:
1. Learn more about your customers by getting out and talking to them. Most engineers are deathly afraid do that, and many are not even technically able to do so, living in other countries or just not having the access. Thus you will have a big avantage over them.
2. Force yourself to learn to work in teams. This will push you to go against the typical lone-wolf attitude, but cohesive teams always win. without exception.
3. Learn to appreciate people who have complimentary expertise. Most engineers prefer to stick with their own kind, which creates very lopsided teams.
Ignoring these three factors dooms 99% of engineers out there to a life of being merely average, and if you make the best of all three you will be in the 1%, the exceptional engineer.
1. Learn more about your customers by getting out and talking to them. Most engineers are deathly afraid do that, and many are not even technically able to do so, living in other countries or just not having the access. Thus you will have a big avantage over them.
2. Force yourself to learn to work in teams. This will push you to go against the typical lone-wolf attitude, but cohesive teams always win. without exception.
3. Learn to appreciate people who have complimentary expertise. Most engineers prefer to stick with their own kind, which creates very lopsided teams.
Ignoring these three factors dooms 99% of engineers out there to a life of being merely average, and if you make the best of all three you will be in the 1%, the exceptional engineer.