How to Manage: Rising from Middle to Senior Management

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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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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0:00.0	You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
0:06.5	I'm Amy Bernstein.
0:08.5	No matter how ambitious and talented you are, rising up and out of mid-level
0:17.6	management can be slow going for reasons beyond your
0:23.7	control position you want has been there forever and might stay there forever.
0:28.4	Or when the company doesn't have a business need or the budget to upgrade your job title and salary from senior
0:35.8	to executive.
0:37.9	When you're ready to take on more and especially when you've been waiting and trying for
0:42.2	what seems like a very long time.
0:44.8	The prospect of remaining stuck in the middle indefinitely is suffocating.
0:50.6	My three guests have been there. They've gotten themselves out of there and now they're
0:54.7	here to direct, inspire, and reassure you. Two of them are COOs, Megan Bach and Lauren Reyes. Megan rose up through the insurance
1:05.6	industry and switched to tech a few years ago. I think in early days I
1:10.1	perhaps wasn't as effective at articulating that I wanted to do more.
1:15.0	As more time passed, I got more explicit.
1:19.0	Lauren rose up the ranks at the YMCA.
1:22.0	I joke with my mom all the time. up the ranks at the YMCA.
1:22.6	I joke with my mom all the time
1:25.1	that I feel like I've been not qualified
1:27.4	for every job that I've applied for and gotten.
1:30.2	And in actuality, you know, like I was qualified.
1:33.0	I had what it took, but there's always that self-doubt.
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