The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Competence gets you considered, and the rest turns on whether people want to work with you. Opportunities travel through other people, and somebody merely very good is regularly passed over for somebody slightly less good who is easier to be around, which strikes most technically minded people as an injustice until they have watched it happen a few times. Less about charm than about being predictable, straight and not exhausting.

Pick the working relationship you have most neglected and repair it this month. One honest conversation is usually enough to start.