The High Potential's Advantage

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Corporate Culture

Understanding the Forces That Shape People’s Perception of You

Let’s say you have embraced and excelled at all five of the X factors that differentiate high potentials from everyone else. Does your accomplishment automatically guarantee you a high-potential designation? Will the X factors help you to safeguard your status no matter how and where you move in your organization? Does the designation mean you’ll be seen as a high potential if you move to another organization? The answer to these questions is, unfortunately, no.

While your true potential is something you will always have, your status as a high potential is enhanced or constrained by the corporate culture where you work. For this reason, you need to have absolute ...