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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

    Table of Contents

    1 Deciphering the Code 1

    2 The Feedback That Really Counts 21

    3 Factor 1: Demonstrating Strategic Skills 43

    4 Factor 2: Building a Strong Management Team 69

    5 Factor 3: Managing Implementation 89

    6 Factor 4: Exhibiting the Capacity For Innovation and Change 109

    7 Factor 5: Working Across Organizational Boundaries 131

    8 Factor 6: Projecting Executive Presence 153

    9 Career Development Strategies 179

    10 Navigating Career Dilemmas 207

    11 A Final Challenge To You—And Your Organization 221

    Notes 229

    Acknowledgments 233

    About the Author 235

    Index 237

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 02/11/2010
      ISBN13: 9780470585788, 978-0470585788
      ISBN10: 0470585781

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

        Table of Contents

        1 Deciphering the Code 1

        2 The Feedback That Really Counts 21

        3 Factor 1: Demonstrating Strategic Skills 43

        4 Factor 2: Building a Strong Management Team 69

        5 Factor 3: Managing Implementation 89

        6 Factor 4: Exhibiting the Capacity For Innovation and Change 109

        7 Factor 5: Working Across Organizational Boundaries 131

        8 Factor 6: Projecting Executive Presence 153

        9 Career Development Strategies 179

        10 Navigating Career Dilemmas 207

        11 A Final Challenge To You—And Your Organization 221

        Notes 229

        Acknowledgments 233

        About the Author 235

        Index 237

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