Leadership Transitions: How Business Leaders Take Charge in New Roles

In a working life of 35 years, a manager can expect to make at least 10 job changes - or transitions - where the demands for rapid business delivery and effective leadership will only increase with each new job. According to recent research, over 25 per cent of new leaders appointed from within fail within 18 months; the figure is closer to 40 per cent for new leaders appointed externally. The cost of this rate of failure is high, ranging from financial to performance to organizational disruption.
This book identifies the sources of these failures and how to overcome them. The authors show that, whether the new leader has arrived as an external appointment or has been promoted internally, the experiences can be divided into three phases: Arriving, Surviving and Thriving. By analysing the different features of the leader's experience at each of these stages, the authors are able to provide a strategy for leaders to take charge and succeed in their new roles.

Author: Richard Elsner, Bridget Farrands
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 09/25/2012
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.28w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780749466923

About the Author
Richard Elsner is a writer, consultant and coach. He has been Managing Director of The Turning Point for 3 years, and prior to that, he worked as a change and organization consultant with Kinsley Lord and KPMG. He also teaches in the MBA program at HEC Paris.

Bridget Farrands is an international organization consultant and coach.