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Mr Pfeffer points out that CEOs who presided over three years of poor earnings and led their firms into bankruptcy only faced a 50% chance of losing their jobs (and perfectly successful senior managers are routinely cleaned out when new CEOs take over). There are plenty of things that matter more than competence, such as the ability to project drive and self-confidence.
The best way to increase your chances of reaching the top is to choose the right department to join. The most powerful departments are the ones that have produced the current big-wigs (R&D in Germany, finance in America), and the ones that pay the most. But the trick is to find the department that is on the rise. Robert McNamara and his fellow whizz kids flourished in post-war America because they realised that power was shifting to finance. Zia Yusuf zoomed up the ranks of SAP, a German software company, because he offered something that the engineering-dominated company lacked: expertise in corporate strategy. Men with pay-TV backgrounds have risen in media companies like News Corporation and Time Warner—rightly so, given the importance of cable and satellite TV to those businesses.

A. 어휘
presided over 통할하다. earnings 소득.
routinely 일상적으로, 上例(상례)적으로. project drive 사업추진.
department 분야, 部署(부서). current 현재의. big-wigs 거물, 고위인물.
trick 비결. whizz kids 神童(신동), 젊은 수재. whizz 빠른 바람 소리, 전문가.
flourish 번영하다. post-war 戰後(전후).〈2차 세계대전〉.
zoomed up 급상승하다. engineering-dominated 기술주도적인.
expertise 전문가적 기술, 지식. corporate 법인조직의.
corporate strategy 회사전략. Corporation 주식회사, 社團法人(사단법인).