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Career Piloting
How to Succeed at the Difficult Assignments Ahead
As you begin to demonstrate your leadership potential—and especially once you’ve been designated a high potential—you’ll be promoted more rapidly than your peers and into assignments with greater impact and visibility. As a result, you’ll be stepping into increasingly more complex assignments. They will be stimulating, profoundly rewarding, and nerve wracking. The good news is that you’ll grow in ways you would never have expected. Most of these assignments, however, will be challenges so big that you’ll sometimes feel completely over your head.
The variety and scope of jobs ahead will demand that you continually operate outside your comfort zone. By comfort zone, we mean
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