Metadata
- Author: Dave Kellogg
- Full Title:: Career Development: What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Data Team Roles,
- URL:: https://kellblog.com/2015/03/08/career-development-what-it-really-means-to-be-a-manager-director-or-vp/
- Read date:: 2025-03-23
Highlights
• Directors are paid to drive results with little or no supervision (“set and forget”). Directors know how to do the job. They can make a project’s tactical plan in their sleep. They can work across the organization to get it done. I love strong directors. They get shit done. • VPs are paid to make the plan. Say you run marketing. Your job is to understand the company’s business situation, make a plan to address it, build consensus to get approval of that plan, and then go execute it. (View Highlight)
VP’s, however, cannot play the approval card. The VP’s job is to get the right answer. They are the functional expert. No one on the team knows their function better than they do. And even if someone did, they are still playing the VP of function role and it’s their job – and no one else’s — to get the right answer. (View Highlight)