How to become a project manager, department head, IT director from a lead developer?

Question

Project management

How do people become CIOs, project managers, managers?
Interested in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Answer 1

People become leaders the moment they realize that great opportunities come only with great responsibility.
Think carefully about whether you are ready to take responsibility for the performance of work to the authorities, the owner of the company and its customers on the one hand and to your subordinates on the other.
Technically, becoming a leader is not so difficult. The main thing is to take responsibility. Take the initiative. Start small, take on more as a lead developer. The management will definitely notice you, there are percentages of enterprising people, and even fewer who are ready to answer for their words. Management has a constant hunger for such people. The management dreams of opening new directions, but they have no one to give them to. They need to find a person who can be shown the direction where to go. And he himself organizes everything that is needed to get there: find people, distribute premises to designers and salespeople, order a website, etc. etc.
If you are not willing to take on additional responsibilities without appropriate compensation. Or phrases like "It's not a question of salary" are spinning in your head, don't even dream of a leadership position. Life is arranged in such a way that investments come first, and then rewards.
For @masterme . Any hard and long work from the outside looks like good luck.

Answer 2

To be in the right place at the right time. Well, in what? You understand that there are certain jobs, their fixed number, and they are busy, and while they are busy, you will not get them. To become a project manager, you need the previous project manager to leave the project or you need to get into a new project that is opening. To become a department head, the previous head must either leave, be promoted, or die. Etc. And if this situation happens - you have to be a) near b) the best.