2024-06-25
51 分钟Is mid-level management a stone you’re ready to step off of? Making that move is difficult but doable, and Amy B and her three guests will direct, inspire, and reassure you. An executive coach validates the challenges of scoring a position that’s scarce. Then, two COOs whose careers stagnated in mid-level management before accelerating again, recount the conversations, decisions, and networking that jump-started them.
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You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
I'm Amy Bernstein.
No matter how ambitious and talented you are, rising up and out of mid level management can be slow going for reasons beyond your control.
Like when the person who's in the higher level position you want has been there forever and might stay there forever.
Or when the company doesn't have a business need or the budget to upgrade your job title and salary from senior to executive.
When you're ready to take on more, and especially when you've been waiting and trying for what seems like a very long time, the prospect of remaining stuck in the middle indefinitely is suffocating.
My three guests have been there, they've gotten themselves out of there, and now they're here to direct, inspire and reassure you.
Two of them are COOs Megan Bach and Lauren Reyes.
Megan rose up through the insurance industry and switched to tech a few years ago.
I think in early days I perhaps wasn't as effective at articulating that I wanted to do more.
As more time passed, I got more explicit.
Lauren rose up the ranks at the ymca.
I joke with my mom all the time that I feel like I've been not qualified for every job that I've applied for and gotten.
And in actuality, you know, like I was qualified, I had what it took.
But there's always that self doubt.
Before becoming executives, their careers had stalled, but they managed to find ways to accelerate them again.
I had no idea prior to walking into that meeting that I was going to say those things.
When you apply to another organization, they see you for who you are today and the potential of what you're willing to sign up for and do.