‘Day one as GC, the rules change. Suddenly, the buck stops with you, and you can no longer delegate upwards on legal matters,’ says James Ford, group general counsel at GSK.
Those who reach the top ranks will already have ‘weathered a lot of storms’, as Ford puts it – but, even so, there’s a big shift in both skillset and mindset involved in making the leap from working as part of the legal team to leading the entire function.
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