From the course: Making the Move to Executive Leadership
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From the course: Making the Move to Executive Leadership
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- A company only needs a limited number of executives. Most companies want to have as few as possible in order to reduce the number of people who have to agree on decisions, or coordinate to get things done. For you to get an executive role, the work you're doing must combine enough difficulty, scale, and end business impact for the company to think they need another executive. Because the number of people on a team is highly visible and easy to count, the size of your team is often used to judge the importance of your job. This focus on headcount encourages empire building, which means growing your team primarily to justify promotion. While this does happen, it's important not to be seen as an empire builder. Add people only to achieve valuable results, not to look better. A second common way to measure impact is either money itself, or something that leads directly to more money for the company. This could be how much a sales team sells, how much a warehouse team ships, or the…
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