Ambition After Forty
At twenty-five the ladder has no top. Somewhere past forty it turns out to have one, and you can see it from where you are standing.
Work · · 9 min read
The announcement went out at four. She had trained him.
The email went out at four on a Thursday, to all of marketing. We are delighted to announce. Shalini read it at her desk with her face arranged, since the floor is open-plan and at least three people were watching to see how she would take it. The new vice president is Rohan, who is thirty-six. She hired him, nine years ago, as a management trainee. She taught him how to read a media plan. He is good; she would have said so to anyone. She replied to the thread within ten minutes. Hugely deserved, Rohan. Congratulations!
She is forty-three and a general manager. She has been a general manager for six years. In her last three reviews the phrase used was “a pillar of the function”, which she has learned to hear correctly. A pillar holds things up and stays where it is put.
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