Completing Your Journey: Learn from Your Experiences and Relationships-Assessing Your Progress Toward Becoming a Great Boss

By: Kent Lineback and Linda A. Hill

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Synopsis: Where are you on your journey to becoming a great boss? How much further must you go in order to master the 3 Imperatives-manage yourself, manage your network, and manage your team? In this chapter, authors Linda Hill and Kent Lineback explain that becoming a great boss means using your own work experience to observe yourself and your interactions, experiment, and push yourself. Even if you're richly talented, there are no shortcuts; experience will not yield its lessons quickly or easily. This chapter provides a self-assessment tool that summarizes the key areas of the 3 Imperatives and allows you to evaluate yourself in those areas on a scale of one to five. It concludes with suggestions about how to interpret the results of your self-assessment and offers specific steps you can take that will help you move ahead in your personal journey toward becoming a great boss. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 12 of "Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader."