Vittori became Corporate Vice President of Motorola for several years, after 13 years as General Manager at Intel. Vittori said that lateral career moves were key, both to her advancement and to her career fulfillment. Women (and other under-represented groups) especially can often benefit from lateral career moves, because they are more likely to get stuck in the “it’s-not-your-time-yet” quicksand and a lateral move may actually be a path up. She said she did “not understand that there was still more money to be made over the long term by doing lateral moves,” until some of her male colleagues explained how they had earned raises by taking lateral roles, so she embraced these moves as well and has excelled as a result. Lateral moves helped a lot of female CEOs get to the C-suiteGeneral Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) Getty ImagesMany C-level executives worked their way up in lateral roles across various aspects of the business before becoming CEO, indeed those helped prepare them to be CEO.

Source: Forbes July 29, 2021 19:18 UTC