Leadership Transitions: The Watkins Collection (4 Items)

The STARS Portfolio Challenge 189

These resources constitute the fuel that will power your engines

of execution.

In part, you’ll fuel up, so to speak, by making important deci-

sions about who’s on your team and what the strategic direction

should be (defining the mission, the objectives, the core compe-

tencies of the organization, and other critical elements of the

strategy). But you’ll also need to take a hard look at existing pat-

terns of activity in the organization you’re joining: how are people

spending their time, and what does that say about their priorities,

work habits, and individual strategies? This was, in part, what Andy

was looking at in his early assessments of the three centers. The

resulting insights served him well when the time came ...