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The Case For Lateral Moves
Most professionals chase vertical promotions, but the fastest path to executive presence often involves a deliberate lateral shift. In this episode, Lucas and Luna dissect why moving sideways into adjacent functions like product marketing or sales operations builds the broad organizational literacy that vertical ladders rarely provide. We examine how internal mobility can accelerate promotion timelines by two years compared to staying in one silo, using a specific case study of a mid-level manager who pivoted from pure engineering to cross-functional leadership. The conversation covers how to…
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