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How to Get Promoted by Owning a Cross-Functional Project
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a career-advancement strategy that rarely gets discussed: owning a cross-functional project that no one else wants to lead. They unpack the story of a mid-level operations manager at a logistics firm who volunteered to coordinate a painful ERP migration between five departments. The project was messy, high-stakes, and outside her formal job description, but it gave her executive visibility and a concrete promotion case. Lucas explains why cross-functional ownership signals leadership readiness more powerfully than any single-function achievement. Luna…
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