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achievement of the vision, strategies, and goals of the leader’s team. With the
help of your organization, you’ll need to begin crafting your vision (Chapter
5), and understanding the diagnostic or assessment process as you analyze your
organization (Chapter 6).
Chapter 7 introduces the nine-target model, which can be used as a diag-
nostic tool for assessing your organization’s overall health. With a sense of
ownership and responsibility for the organization’s performance, health, and
growth, the vision that results from your early efforts should involve many
members of your function and will need to be implemented by them.
Chapter 8, “From Resistance to Renewal: Building Your Leadership Team’s
Commitment,” describes how to build full commitment to that vision within
the organization. The chapter emphasizes understanding, assessing, and man-
aging your specific organizational politics, environment, and culture. The
chapter introduces the tenth Just Promoted Leader Tool: Your Personal Polit-
ical Inventory. Chapter 8 also examines the practical implications of group and
organizational dynamics during your first year on the job. We examine forces
resistant to change and principles of effective change, and we look at organi-
zational change efforts that have succeeded and failed.
Chapter 9, “Settling into Your Renewing Organization,” describes the
period when the organization has absorbed change and is ready to seek equi-
librium and enter a period of stability. This chapter discusses how to fine-tune
your leadership role. This chapter introduces SOARING, which is a way to
sharpen how you think about your work and personal life.
Part III covers “Managing the Impact of Moving Up on Your Family and
Personal Life.” Professional transitions inevitably result in personal transitions
as well, and Chapter 10, “Creating Your New Life Integration,” discusses how
your transition to a new leadership role can affect your family, health, and
time. It also discusses implications for dual-career marriages. To help you
achieve the goal of a healthy work/life integration, this chapter includes activ-
ities dealing with your real and ideal self, your personal time, and your per-
sonal plan of action.
This book is about navigating your leadership transition. Such transitions
involve professional and personal change. For leaders, both are essential. Suc-
cess in one area supports success in the other. We start with the professional
dimension, looking at how to begin your new leadership role and enter the
organization.