The Leadership Accelerator: The Playbook for Transitioning into Your New Executive Role

CHAPTER 3

Elevating into the C-Suite

The Four Faces of Leadership

Today when you are recruited as a senior executive, it is very rare that you are hired just to maintain the status quo. Instead, you typically are recruited to help your company achieve the next level of performance or to adapt to a changing business environment. This generally will require you to help the C-suite shape strategy and drive the execution of the strategy to deliver the next level of performance. The functional skills and expertise that originally got you to the C-suite may simply not be enough to keep you there. Instead, strategy, influence, and change skills at a new level of scale now become particularly salient.

To help executives understand the changing demands ...