Brian Kaskavalciyan says Fortune 1000 executives have organizational skills most entrepreneurs lack. But the other speaker argues those capabilities are learnable: start small, accumulate experience in focused roles, and you can build the same skills over a career.
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You have a skill set that us entrepreneurs kind of wish we had, at least I do. And that is the organizational skills that you need in order to be in the C-suite and to be up, especially Fortune 1000 company, the level of organization and sophistication that you have to have, at least to someone like me who's never even been around any of that, seems to me like you've got to work at a pretty high level.
Is that true? I would say there's a lot of things that are transferable that I have been exposed to in different capacities all the way throughout my career. When you start out in a company like that, you are, you know, you're starting out at a very small level doing one specific small thing. Along the way, you do get a lot of leadership type of— not only the training, but the experiences.