Your Next Move

Book description

"Whether you're going for that promotion, looking to jump ship, or change careers entirely, Michael Watkins' Your Next Move is a book you'll want to read." So starts the positive review of Your Next Move on the influential 800 CEO Read website. It's true that all leaders--no matter how seasoned--need guidance through the professional changes that define a career. In fact, transitions into new roles are the crucibles in which leaders get their toughest tests, and they're the defining factor in professional careers today. Yet far too often, leaders fail to transition effectively into new roles. The resulting costs are high, for individual careers and for organizations. In Your Next Move, leadership-transition guru Watkins shows how you can survive and thrive in all the major transitions you will face during your career-including promotions, leading former peers, on-boarding into a new organization, making an international move, or turning around or realigning an organization. With real-life examples and case studies, Watkins illustrates the defining hurdles associated with each type of transition. He then provides the insights, strategies, and tools you'll need to accelerate through these crucial turning points and continue moving up in your career. The necessary complement to the author's bestselling guide The First 90 Days, which has been translated in more than 20 languages worldwide, Your Next Move offers the keen observations, tried-and-true management wisdom, and practical good sense Watkins is renowned for. It's a vital resource for any manager or executive seeking to maintain career momentum. To quote the reviewer from above: "It's not just about "moving" but about what happens when those actions are taken. Success or failure are the two options, and which option you emerge with will determine what happens going forward. Watkins' book definitely has the research and insight to equip you for the better of the two paths."

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction - Your Next Move
  7. 1 - The Promotion Challenge
    1. The Promotion Challenge
    2. Core Promotion Challenges
    3. Level-Specific Competencies
    4. Becoming a Business Unit Leader
    5. Meeting the Personal Adaptive Challenge
    6. Accelerating Development
    7. Promotion Checklist
  8. 2 - The Leading-Former-Peers Challenge
    1. The Leading-Former-Peers Challenge
    2. Relationship Reengineering
    3. Working with Your New Peers and Boss
    4. Leading-Former-Peers Checklist
  9. 3 - The Corporate Diplomacy Challenge
    1. The Corporate Diplomacy Challenge
    2. Becoming an Effective Diplomat
    3. Mapping the Influence Landscape
    4. Developing an Influence Strategy
    5. Corporate Diplomacy Checklist
  10. 4 - The Onboarding Challenge
    1. The Onboarding Challenge
    2. Organizational Immunology
    3. Adapting to the Culture
    4. Making Political Connections
    5. Aligning Expectations
    6. Creating Onboarding Systems
    7. Onboarding Checklist
  11. 5 - The International Move Challenge
    1. The International Move Challenge
    2. International Move Checklist
  12. 6 - The Turnaround Challenge
    1. The Turnaround Challenge
    2. Business Systems Analysis
    3. The External Environment
    4. The Internal Environment
    5. The Business Strategy
    6. The Organizational Architecture
    7. Turnaround Checklist
  13. 7 - The Realignment Challenge
    1. The Realignment Challenge
    2. The Right Change Strategy for the Situation
    3. The Right Leadership Style for the Situation
    4. Leveraging the STARS Framework
    5. Realignment Checklist
  14. 8 - The STARS Portfolio Challenge
    1. The STARS Portfolio Challenge
    2. Driving Execution
    3. STARS and the Personal Adaptive Challenge
    4. STARS Portfolio Checklist
  15. Conclusion - Designing Companywide Transition-Acceleration Systems
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. About the Author

Product information

  • Title: Your Next Move
  • Author(s): Michael D. Watkins
  • Release date: October 2009
  • Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
  • ISBN: 9781422152706