Reaching the managerial level and being a successful executive is very similar to reaching adulthood. When we are children, we are protected, and our tutors make life easy for us. Such protection grows thinner as we get older, demanding more and more from us just to keep pace. It's call growing up...

Everything gets tougher as one gets older, and becoming a good manager is no exception, with the possible concession that becoming a successful manager is tougher than growing up as a person.

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