Your Next Move - The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions by Michael D Watkins

"Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide To Navigating Major Career Transitions" by Michael D. Watkins is a good book for those who are advancing up the corporate job ladder. It is a sequel to Watkins' "The First 90 Days," also a book I liked.I'll say up front that this book is not for the person who is looking for a major career transition by completely changing occupations, etc. If you are an accountant, lawyer, or some other profession and you are looking at changing occupations or professions, this is not really the book for you. If you have just gotten promoted, transferred to one of your company's overseas offices, or were hired to come in and take a leadership role in an existing corporation, this book has some excellent advice on these kinds of transitions.I think the book is best suited for those people in leadership positions of larger corporations or organizations. It's not geared as much for the smaller business owner. The other also expands on his model of situations
for leaders from "The First 90 Days" by adding a fifth situation and he calls this STARS. The acronym stands for: Start-up, Turnaround, Accelerated growth, Realignment, and Sustaining success. This model is addressed in several chapters, but most in-depth in chapter 8.The eight chapters focus on the common career moves the author chose to address in this book. They include: 1. The promotion challenge. 2. The leading-former-peers challenge. 3. The corporate diplomacy challenge. 4. The onboarding challenge. 5. The international move challenge. 6. The turnaround challenge. 7. The realignment challenge. 8. The business portfolio challenge.Each chapter describes the challenge by first using an example. Then suggestions and solutions are presented, and the chapters conclude with a short checklist of questions to think about and implement in your transition situation. Again, the book is geared toward the larger corporate setting, and for those that are facing a transition in such a
situation, this book provides some good advice and will make you think about things that are important to your successful transition. For those wanting to transition out of their chosen path to something else, there are other books for that.Transitioning to a new role in the corporate jungle can bring many challenges. Watkins' book will help you face those challenges to accelerate your career and help you organization thrive. Very good book for the manager or executive seeking to climb the corporate ladder.

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