 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | After three months in a new job, are you up to speed? Will you sink . . . or swim? 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 your career and the organization.
In Your Next Move, leadership-transition guru Michael Watkins shows how you can survive and thrive in all the major transitions you will face during your career, including promotion, on-boarding into a new organization, and making an international move. With real-life examples and case studies, he illustrates the defining hurdles associated with each type of transition.
He then provides the insights, strategies, and tools-including relationship reengineering, business systems analysis, and "organizational immunology"-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, 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. |
Average Customer Rating:   Not Bad If you are looking for a book to spoon-feed and walk you through your career, this book will not provide that. However it will help you connect-the-dots for typical management/leadership career navigation related issues. The book provides a good balance between theory and practice.
While the book sets forth suggestions that may help you in your career, it is ultimately up to you to decide what lessons you wish to draw from this book. Particularly if you are feeling stalled in or dissatisfied with your career, you should at least get this book from your library; you will likely be impressed enough to add it to your personal collection.
First 90 days for more senior managers and execs "The First 90 Days" was about all kinds of management transitions. In constrast, this book is focused on more senior managers & executives and drills down into specifics for 8 major career transitions, only two of which really apply to first-level managers: promotions and leading former peers. The others are more senior: corporate diplomacy, onboarding (major role in new company), international moves, turnarounds, realignment and business portfolio.
In my career, I've done three international moves, business portfolio, corporate diplomacy, onboarding and turnarounds. Frankly, all of those would have been a lot easier to navigate if I'd had this book. It's a blend of basic advice, structure and checklists. It is mercifully brief (200 pages) and therefore you are not going to get in-depth advice here -- but that's OK. It's more like having an informed guide to show you the way and tell you what to look out for, and provide pointers to more in-depth reading.
Recommended more senior managers; if you've just moving into your first management role or switching management roles, then The First 90 days is a better buy. good information for your career transition Initially, I wasn't too impressed with the author; one of the first things he did was pimp his previous book, which I found a bit distasteful. However, after getting into the book a bit more, I found it had quite a few gems. Although I'm not really looking to make a change from my current job and career track, I found the book was geared nicely towards management (which I am) and corporate culture (which I'm embedded in).
The book is definitely a guide, and doesn't really provide any solid answers; you're going to have to make your own decisions here. At about 200 pages, it's a great weekend read (or afternoon, depending on how fast you go), and I'd recommend it, as it's good information to have, even if you're not contemplating a change. Excellent management book ..a must-read! This is a masterpiece to successfully manage your career moves and get the most out of them. All professionals go through a series of career moves and if you want to learn and grow your career further, each of these moves become more & more challenging with time. Watkins has defined 7 such moves to include majority of career transitions, while acknowledging the fact, that there can be more types and a mix variety in one's career. And each move is a change in itself...a challenge indeed. These 7 moves are:
Promotion -> Moving up in hierarchy-developing new competencies and delegating
Leading Former Peers -> Manage people ho were your peers-Relationship reengineering
Corporate Diplomacy -> Leading without authority-Influencing skills-cultivating alliances
Onboarding -> Joining a new org in leadership position - Aligning expectations
International move -> New country, new culture - family relocation -EQ
Turnaround -> Developing & executing a new strategy - Toughness
Realignment -> Creating a shared sense of urgency to change - Take people out of denial mode
Each chapter is focused on one of the above transition and starts in a story-like situation. Watkins uses his STARS portfolio of organizational change to identify the type of change and develop a strategy to effectively manage it. However, in real world any career transition will be a mix of the above situation. So Watkins has included one chapter specially on managing such a mixed situation move.
I highly recommend this book to all those professional who can come of their comfort zone and make a career move. Ssooner you grasp this, more the benefits will be. A Guide To Coming On Board for The B & C-Level Manger But Informative For All This short, but impressive book is obviously directed to the B and C-Level Executive about to transition into a new position. With that
said it provides insight into the corporate hierarchy for all who aspire to leadership, or want to know what is going on in their organization. It provides both formal and informal models and descriptions of corporate hierarchy, information on how a manager is judged and influences/(is influenced by) surrounding allies, reports and opponents. It also gives meaningful insights into the nature of modern business organizations and the factors that determine success in the corporation.
Certainly this short guidebook for the advancing or transitioning executive is vital to anyone who is lucky enough to fall into that category--but it also provides a realistic look at the forces which govern large organizations for anyone who wishes to understand what is going on in their business environment.
--Ira Laefsky
MSE/MBA Information Technology Consultant |  |
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