Just One Letter to Go! – Moving From Functional to General Management

Attributed to: Jon Midmer, Managing Partner. A CMO I placed a few years ago shared with me late last year that her daughter was encouraging her to pursue her long-held dream of becoming a CEO: “You should go for it, mum!”, she apparently told her. “You’ve spent your whole career working so hard to get where you are – and now there’s just one letter to go!”.  The one-letter difference between…