Career advice on becoming a operations manager by john lewis (highlights)

Full version at http://icould.com/videos/john-lewis/?length=long John Lewis is Operations Manager at Gibsons Foods. He was made redundant after 24 years of working in the glass industry. During the following year he did a lot of menial jobs and applied for 553 others. He eventually got a job with prospects in the food processing industry. 'I found the transition into the new job reasonably OK because the way I approached it was to take skills that I already had but to apply them in a slightly different way.'