SECTION III
EXECUTIVE ESSENTIALS
Introduction
As an employee moves through the various roles of doer, supervisor, manager, and executive, it is clear that skill sets must both expand and deepen. What does it take to be an executive in a company? Clearly there is no single or simple answer, but recent interviews with individuals in executive positions yielded two broad categories of skills.
First is a set of characteristics describing the individual, or attributes. Second is a list of skills executives employ to get results, or competencies. These are, of course, blended in different combinations and extents in different people. Companies face different challenges at different points in time, and executives need the agility to draw upon the attributes ...
