Thoughts on Becoming A General Manager

I had a long meeting with the VP-Administration, she has told me that their plans for me is to groom me for the position of a general manager…to let me handle the whole operations of the factory…I have told here that on the general Administrative side of things I am really quite capable…but my competency does not include the technical…engineering side …production or manufacturing wise…A technical/production guy does not necessarily mean the he can be good in management…vice-versa….an admin guy as a production guy…well there’s the challenge of it because I feel that These things could be learned like any other skill…but still one needs to build up his competency and in this case…I need to learn and understand the process and technical side of production to be a good general manager…I am thankful that management has confidence to look my way and out CEO to mentor me on things such as these…I just hope I could learn the ropes and perform well…this I gotta see for myself...