Leadership Transitions: The Watkins Collection (4 Items)

Conclusion

Designing

Companywide

Transition-Acceleration

Systems

throughout the book i have explored the diverse

tough transitions that leaders face, focusing on how to match

strategy to the demands of specific situations. I also have offered

some advice about what companies can do to accelerate the vari-

ous types of transitions.

To conclude, however, it is essential to take a step back from

the diversity of transitions and return to an exploration of their

underlying unity. While each of the transition types has distinct

features and demands, they all confront new leaders with the

same fundamental imperatives: to diagnose the situation rapidly

and well, to crystallize the organizational-change and personal

adaptive challenges, to craft a plan that creates ...