6 vital ingredients for a successful career
Finding fresh perspectives, building coalitions and staying calm under duress are among the key elements needed for ascent and accomplishment.
Though there’s no one-formula-fits-all recipe for career success, there are common ingredients in the form of behaviors and skills.
Here are the basic components, though the proportions can vary.
Your challenge is to cultivate the needed skills and bring them to life in portions that align your abilities and your organization’s culture and needs.
1. Gray-zone leadership. Gray-zone leaders are adept at building coalitions to solve vexing problems that often lurk between functional groups. The issues are important, but no one owns them. Gray-zone leaders identify those items vital to a firm’s or unit’s success and use their influence to bring the right expertise to the situation. Once successful, they dispense credit liberally, enhancing their influence and widening their visibility to senior leaders.
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