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You've just been promoted and find yourself questioning your ability to pull off the new job. Now what? Virtually every leader recalls that make or break promotion when success depends on accessing inner capacities that lie just beyond prior experience. Taking on new challenges and responsibilities as a manager can be one of the most exhilarating and rewarding transitions in a businessperson's career. It can also be fraught with stress, self-doubt, isolation, and frustration. Bob Gunn and Betsy Gullickson draw on decades of executive coaching and human resource consulting experience to characterize the process of management promotion as walking the high wire-venturing into the unknown without a safety net. In this highly accessible guide, Gunn and Gullickson address the challenges and opportunities head-on and offer specific strategies and tactics for navigating the transition into leadership, delegation, conflict management, motivation, project management, and problem solving. Featuring thought-provoking questions and a listing of helpful resources,
On the High Wire will engage and inspire new managers to become even more creative and effective leaders.
At the heart of the book is the notion that productive and fulfilling management is not simply a collection of skills and techniques, but a mindset. Illustrating this theme through many powerful first-hand examples, the authors guide you toward achieving the clarity of vision and purpose that comes from being aware of context, attuned to the feelings that influence behavior, and respectful of multiple points of view. Featuring thought-provoking questions and a listing of helpful resources,
On the High Wire will engage and inspire new managers to become even more creative and effective leaders.
List of contents
Foreword
Preface: Authors' Perspectives
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Stepping Into the Unknown
Masterful Managers Artfully Balance Doing and BeingGrace in Change
The Productivity Paradox
Creativity and Strategy
Better Decisions
Letting Go To Get Ahead
Strong Connections Begin With Respect For Separate ThinkingJob One--Setting the Right Tone
Sales and Meetings
Teams--Working as One
Managing Conflict
Employee Relations
The Calmer You Become, The More Powerful You Become - And the More You Can AchieveFocus & Clarity
The Antidote to Stress
Measuring Up
Wellspring
Afterword: Why Lead?
Appendix A: Additional Resources
Appendix B: Fundamentals
Notes
Index
About the author
Robert W. Gunn is co-founder of Accompli, an advisory firm that helps executives achieve transformative goals while accelerating leader effectiveness. A pioneer in human resource outsourcing and a long-time executive guide, he created the administrative consulting practice at AT Kearney, and, in 1991, co-founded Gunn Partners, based on the principle of lean consulting. With Betsy Gullickson, he writes a monthly column for the executive-level magazine,
Strategic Finance.
Betsy Raskin Gullickson is an executive coach and communications consultant. Previously, she was a partner at Ketchum, Inc., one of the world's largest PR firms, where she directed the San Francisco business unit and the Global Food & Nutrition Practice. She has also served as a writer/editor at several trade magazines. With Robert Gunn, she writes a monthly column for the executive-level magazine,
Strategic Finance.
