
When Promotion Means Replacing Yourself
A VP promotion succeeded in the new seat and failed in the old one, the job nobody was prepared to backfill. The bill: two quarters of pipeline.
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A VP promotion succeeded in the new seat and failed in the old one, the job nobody was prepared to backfill. The bill: two quarters of pipeline.

She was marketing's best IC. Eight months after the VP promotion, the function had stopped shipping. Why the IC-to-manager step fails so often.