The Onboarding Challenge: A Leader's Guide to Navigating this Important Career Transition
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- Synopsis
- Joining an established business from the outside is never easy. The new leadership role is often ill-defined, the organizational architecture will most likely be unfamiliar, and the politics are even more complex than usual. To increase the odds of success in their new roles, onboarding executives need to recognize that each company has its own distinct "immune system" comprising the organization's culture and political networks. As in the human body, immune systems can work to protect the business from outside threats. But the danger is that these systems can also destroy good things coming from the outside and deter agents for change. In this chapter, transition acceleration expert Michael Watkins outlines the steps onboarding leaders must take in order to adapt to the culture, make political connections, and align expectations in their new organization. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 4 of "Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions."
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Publisher:
- Harvard Business Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 08/02/16
- Copyrighted By:
- HBS Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.