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Your Next Move--Understanding the Challenges of Eight Classic Career Transitions
Watkins, Michael D.Book Chapter HBS-5336BC-EYou've got big plans and ambitions in your career, and you've done well. But are you ready for your next move? Because your path to the top will be built through a series of major career moves, and each time you make a change you have the opportunity to shine or to stumble. Shine and you will be positioned for still greater things. Stumble and you may never recover. Whether you've been promoted, are joining a new company, or moving to an office a...Starting at €8.20
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Three Keys to Getting an Overseas Assignment Right
Clouse, Mark Alan; Watkins, Michael D.Article HBS-R0910N-ELeadership and People ManagementAn international assignment can be among the most exciting and challenging transitions that an aspiring leader can undertake. With the right planning and attitudes, taking on that kind of leadership role can stretch capabilities, challenge assumptions, and steer both people and profits in a positive direction. But an expat assignment can also be a harrowing journey. Indeed, if they've never made an international move before, emerging leaders can ...Starting at €8.20
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It's All About Day One
Janasz, Suzanne de; van der Graaf, Kees; Watkins, Michael D.Article HBS-R1306G-ELeadership and People ManagementLeaders find transitions into new roles the most challenging times in their professional lives, when they either build credibility and create momentum or stumble and sow doubts about their effectiveness. Much attention has therefore been given to how they should take charge in their early days--but far too little to how the organization should set them up for success from the start. Failure to announce appointments in the right way can undo all t...Starting at €8.20
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How Managers Become Leaders
Watkins, Michael D.Article HBS-R1206C-EFew managerial transitions are more difficult than making the move from leading a function to leading an entire enterprise for the first time. The scope and complexity of the job increase dramatically, in ways that can leave executives feeling overwhelmed and uncertain. It truly is different at the top. But how, exactly? Career transition expert Michael Watkins set out to explore that question in an extensive series of interviews with leadership ...Starting at €8.20
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The Turnaround Challenge: A Leader's Guide to Navigating this Important Career Transition
Watkins, Michael D.Book Chapter HBS-5351BC-EWhen it comes to turnarounds, time is of the essence. Your initial actions as the new leader of a turnaround should be aimed at immediately stabilizing the business, preserving the core so it will survive. Then you can shift your attention to reworking the business, laying the foundation for growth. In this chapter, transition acceleration expert Michael Watkins shows you how to quickly diagnose the situation and define the central organizational...Starting at €8.20
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Designing Companywide Transition-Acceleration Systems: Basic Design Principles
Watkins, Michael D.Book Chapter HBS-5348BC-EWhile there are many different types of transitions leaders will go through in their careers, there are certain underlying imperatives that are fundamental to all of them: to diagnose the situation rapidly and well, to crystallize the organizational-change and personal development challenges, to craft a plan that creates momentum, and to manage them for personal excellence. What are the implications for how companies should accelerate key transit...Starting at €8.20
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Picking the Right Transition Strategy (Spanish version)
Watkins, Michael D.Article HBS-R0901CLeadership and People ManagementOrganize to learn about the business, establish A-item priorities, define strategic intent, quickly build the leadership team, secure early wins, and create supportive alliances across the company. But the way those principles should be applied depends very much on the business situation, which the STARS framework can help leaders analyze. Turnarounds and realignments present especially distinct leadership challenges that call for particular tra...Starting at €8.20
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The Onboarding Challenge: A Leader's Guide to Navigating this Important Career Transition
Watkins, Michael D.Book Chapter HBS-5339BC-EJoining an established business from the outside is never easy. The new leadership role is often ill-defined, the organizational architecture will most likely be unfamiliar, and the politics are even more complex than usual. To increase the odds of success in their new roles, onboarding executives need to recognize that each company has its own distinct "immune system" comprising the organization's culture and political networks. As in the human ...Starting at €8.20
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Picking the Right Transition Strategy
Watkins, Michael D.Article HBS-R0901C-ELeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Leaders in transition reflexively rely on the skills and strategies that worked for them in the past. That's a mistake, says Watkins, whose research shows that executives moving into new roles must gain a deep understanding of the situation at hand and adapt to it....Starting at €8.20