How More Engineers Can Enter the 1%

It may start with becoming a member of the confidence elite.  From the always excellent Schumpeter column in the current issue of the Economist - How to Join the 1%:

"This overwhelming emphasis on style rather than substance many seem an odd way to select members of the 1%.  But those at the top of consulting, investment-banking and legal professions know that the most priced possession in uncertain times is not brainpower, but self-confidence.  For all the talk of the world becoming dominated by the "cognitive elite", in reality it appears it is nothing more than a "confidence elite."