Introduction: Mastering your next move
Successful careers as a series of challenging transitions into new roles: mapping the critical categories of career moves, meeting the personal adaptive challenge and the organizational change challenge
The promotion challenge: understanding what "success" looks like a higher level in the hierarchy, adjusting your focus and approach to delegation, developing new leadership competencies and cultivating "presence"
The leading-former-peers challenge: being promoted to manage people who were formerly your peers, deftly establishing your authority in the new role, re-engineering existing relationships, dealing with problematic former peers
The corporate diplomacy challenge: moving from a position of authority to one in which strong influence skills are critical for getting things done, mapping the influence landscape, building supportive alliances
The on-boarding challenge: joining a new organization and adapting to new culture, the pillars of effective on-boarding, building the right political "wiring", aligning expectations up, down, and sideways
The international move challenge: moving to a new country and leading people in an unfamiliar culture, moving one's family and rebuilding the support system, preparing for entry, beginning to engage with the team and the business
The turnaround challenge: taking over an organization that is in very deep trouble and figuring out how to save it from destruction, diagnosing the situation, designing the business model, driving alignment and dynamically adapting
The realignment challenge: confronting an organization that is in denial about the need for change, creating a sense of urgency, before emerging problems erupt in a crisis, adjusting your leadership style to match the situation
The STARS portfolio challenge: leading an organization in which different parts are in different states
startup, turnaround, accelerated growth, realignment, and sustaining success, figuring out where to focus and how to build momentum
Conclusion: Designing company-wide acceleration systems: understanding the critical transitions taking place throughout companies, building unified transition