A lot of lower-upper management equates stress to work, without realizing that simply not giving a fuck (like the CEO does) produces the same amount of labor with a quarter of the stress
It depends on the industry but from my experience the c-suite and partner level positions are the “you made it” role and the one right below is the hardest job with all the real hands on work to prove they deserve the promotion.
A lot of lower-upper management equates stress to work, without realizing that simply not giving a fuck (like the CEO does) produces the same amount of labor with a quarter of the stress
It depends on the industry but from my experience the c-suite and partner level positions are the “you made it” role and the one right below is the hardest job with all the real hands on work to prove they deserve the promotion.
But even that work is mainly an extreme influx of emails and ordering around subordinates