Road to the top

摘要

If you want to be the next boss of Cadbury Schweppes, or Unilever, here's a tip: don't join the logistics department. For any chief executives out there with 'supply chain director' on your CV, I apologise. But there won't be many, as the biographies above demonstrate. "Supply chain attracts some extremely capable people," says one recruitment director. "But how many logistics directors do you know that become chief executive?" So what credentials do you need if you want to make it to the very top?