Book description
Maximize your chances to get promoted to the executive level
As predictable career paths have become extinct in most organizations, managers aspiring to the C-level job are left to their own devices to determine how to advance their careers. Even in companies committed to talent development, guidance to aspiring executives is often vague and contradictory. This happens, executive coach John Beeson argues, because executive promotions are made based on the decision makers' intuitive sense of whether or not a manager can succeed at higher levels within the organization. Beeson decodes these leadership criteria--the unwritten rules--that companies use to make decisions about who gets promoted and who doesn't, and identifies the six core "selection factors" that are imperative for success at the executive level
Demonstrating strategic skills
Building a strong management team
Managing implementation
Exhibiting the capacity for innovation and change
Working across organizational boundaries
Projecting executive presence
Filled with stories of managers who successfully climbed up the executive ladder-and some who struggled-The Unwritten Rules is an invaluable resource for aspiring executives.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- 1. Deciphering the Code
- 2. The Feedback That Really Counts
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3. Factor 1: Demonstrating Strategic Skills
- 3.1. CAN STRATEGIC THINKING ABILITY BE DEVELOPED?
- 3.2. GENERATING STRATEGIC INSIGHT
- 3.3. STRENGTHENING YOUR ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE A STRATEGIC VISION
- 3.4. COMPENSATING FOR LESS-THAN-STELLAR STRATEGIC ABILITIES
- 3.5. DEMONSTRATING STRATEGIC THINKING ABILITY IN A STAFF OR FUNCTIONAL ROLE
- 3.6. AVOIDING THE FIRST LIEUTENANT SYNDROME
- 3.7. FOCUSING ON THE CONTROLLABLE FACTORS
- 4. Factor 2: Building a Strong Management Team
- 5. Factor 3: Managing Implementation
- 6. Factor 4: Exhibiting the Capacity for Innovation and Change
- 7. Factor 5: Working Across Organizational Boundaries
- 8. Factor 6: Projecting Executive Presence
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9. Career Development Strategies
- 9.1. INCREASING YOUR VISIBILITY WITHIN THE COMPANY
- 9.2. BUILDING YOUR EXTERNAL NETWORK
- 9.3. CONSIDERING A LATERAL MOVE
- 9.4. ENGINEERING A DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENT
- 9.5. DEMONSTRATING YOUR LEARNING ABILITY
- 9.6. IDENTIFYING THE RIGHT STRETCH ASSIGNMENT
- 9.7. FINDING CREATIVE WAYS TO DEVELOP IN YOUR CURRENT ASSIGNMENT
- 9.8. CRAFTING YOUR CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN
- 10. Navigating Career Dilemmas
- 11. A Final Challenge to Youâand Your Organization
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Product information
- Title: The Unwritten Rules: The Six Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2010
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9780470585788
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