Idea 55: From specialist to business leader
The Hourglass-shaped and the Inverted Funnel models of career change give you two broad vocational paths. Stay as a specialist and seek excellence, or widen out as a generalist, as an organizational leader. If you take the second path, excellence remains your aim, but it is now excellence as a leader.
The story or process of your career can be represented as being like the shape of an hourglass or egg timer. As you move upward through the narrow neck of the glass, you begin to acquire the wider knowledge or experience of the purpose of the organization as a whole, as compared with your specialized part ...
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