How to reach the Next Level ?

May 4, 2010

Simon Vetter has recommended me a great book.

The Next Level
What Insiders Know About Executive Success

Much as Good to Great described what separates top companies from the rest, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success shows executives what separates leadership success from failure at the next level.

Every day, high performers are tapped to be executives and then left alone to figure out how to succeed in their new role. When this happens, most executives rely on strengths that served them well earlier in their careers.

As executive coach Scott Eblin explains, this is why 40 percent of them fail. Moving successfully to the executive level requires knowing which behaviors and beliefs to let go, as well as which new ones to pick up. Like having a personal executive coach, this confidence-building book outlines a program for success based on frank advice from accomplished senior executives on what to do and to avoid.

Pick Up / What To Do	Let Go Of / Avoid
Personal Presence
Confidence in your presence Regular renewal of your energy Custom-fit-communications	Doubt in how you contribute Running flat out until you crash One-size-fits-all communications
Team Presence
Team reliance Defining what to do Accountability for many results	Self-reliance Telling how to do it Responsibility for a few results
Organizational Presence
Looking left and right as you lead An outside-in view of the entire organization A big-footprint view of your role	Looking primarily up and down as you lead An inside-out view of your function A small-footprint view of your role

Source: The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, by Scott Eblin, page 15.

See below a short video on these concepts.

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