FT Business School - Insead FT.com presents the seventh series of executive education video lectures, delivered by Professor Herminia Ibarra of Insead, the business school based in France and Singapore.
Leadership of a team requires very different skills to the hands-on operational expertise most mid-ranking staff possess. But how do you make this leadership transition? In Moving up, her first video lecture, Herminia Ibarra outlines the crucial changes that need to take place.
But sometimes a promotion isn’t as attractive as a complete change of career. Established professionals are not too old to make radical job changes, but they are far from easy to achieve. In Moving out, Professor Ibarra shows how.
Contents
1. Introduction: how we overestimate our leadership skills
2. The first area where change is needed: skills
3. The second area: relationships
4. The third area: style
5. Inbred networks: a common failing
6. Closing thought: shedding an old identity
Insead case study on Wim de Boer, a struggling Dutch manager
Tough lessons on the road to leadership
How leaders create and use networks
Hard-pressed in the hot seat
List your own strategies for dealing with the leadership transition at the Management Blog.
Contents
1. Introduction: the bad news first
2. Finding a new path: action beats introspection
3. Three career change strategies
4. Strategy one: develop side projects
5. Strategy two: expand your network
6. Strategy three: work on your story
7. Closing thought: the myth of the “one true self”
Chapter one of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career, by Herminia Ibarra
A cure for the professional identity crisis, FT interview with Herminia Ibarra
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