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‘Find a problem, be the solution’: One marketer on his path to general management
Entain’s chief commercial officer Dominic Grounsell has made a career out of broadening his skills and tackling tough challenges in order to make the leap from marketing into business leadership.
Breaking through the glass ceiling and making the transition into general management is something many marketers aspire to achieve – but not all get the opportunity to do.
For Dominic Grounsell, his career has been laser-focused on reaching the C-suite, and the decisions he made to jump industries and constantly challenge himself comes from two bits of advice that stuck with him. The first, a personal mantra that “smooth seas don’t make skilful sailors”, or to put it another way, “the more your back is against the wall, the more you learn”.
