YOUR NEXT MOVE

The Leader’s Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions

Michael D. Watkins

The new release from the bestselling author of THE FIRST 90 DAYS

The path to the top is built step-by-step through a series of major career moves. Every time leaders make a move they have the opportunity to shine or to stumble. Shine and they will be positioned for still greater things. Stumble and they may never recover.

Michael D. Watkins, bestselling author and Chairman of transition acceleration firm Genesis Advisers, has extensive experience with leaders in transition and brings his latest thinking to readers in YOUR NEXT MOVE: The Leader’s Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions (Harvard Business Press; October 9, 2009; £19.95). In the book, Watkins shows how to survive and thrive in all of the classic major transitions leaders should expect to face during their career-from promotions and on-boarding into new organizations to leading former peers and entering turnaround situations.

Today’s leaders face their toughest challenges ever-many of them moving into new roles with increased responsibility and complexity, while traversing one of the most difficult business environments in decades. But the importance of their work remains:  Failure to take charge quickly results in high costs, both for the leader and for the leader’s organization.

Watkins provides the insights, strategies, and tools needed to accelerate through crucial turning points. Based on a decade of research, YOUR NEXT MOVE explores eight perennial transitions that executives will encounter at various stages of their career.  Framed by real examples and filled with practical tools, Watkins outlines critical personal and organizational requirements for success. 

Readers will learn to:

 *Adjust their approach to DELEGATION

*REENGINEER RELATIONSHIPS with both peers and bosses

*Build the right political “wiring” to FORGE STRONG ALLIANCES

*Focus efforts on the right initiatives to SECURE EARLY WINS

*Tailor their LEADERSHIP STYLE to better match the situation or culture

*Assess the health of multiple units and STRATEGIZE accordingly

The necessary complement to the author's bestselling guide THE FIRST 90 DAYS, the new book YOUR NEXT MOVE offers the necessary observations and management wisdom for any manager or executive seeking to maintain career momentum.  To learn more, visit www.YourNextMove.net.

 About the Author

Michael D. Watkins is the world’s leading expert on accelerating transitions. He is the author of the international bestseller The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels. Watkins is Chairman of Genesis Advisers (www.genesisadvisers.com), a leadership development company located in Newton, Massachusetts. Previously he was a professor at IMD in Switzerland, INSEAD in France, the Harvard Business School, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. 

 The Book

Your Next Move, by Michael Watkins, is published by Harvard Business Press. European Publication Date: October 9th, 2009 ISBN: 9781422147634; £19.99; hardcover.