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6 Just Promoted!

After Six Months?
Weeks? Days?
Hours?

This wide range of feelings and reactions after accepting a new leadership
role is so pervasive that you should expect it regardless of your role as a depart-
ment head, team or plant leader, general manager, executive director, or school
principal or superintendent. What is actually going on is one of the most
important concepts discussed in this book. It is called the newly promoted
leader dilemma, and it can be described in the following way:

The Just Promoted Leader Dilemma

Today’s organizations have
• Very high expectations for results, probably higher than ever before
• Low levels of organizational patience and shorter time frames than
ever before for achieving the results

Low Quick
High + Organizational = Stardom
or
Patience
Expectations Quick
for Results Problems