Image VISION & VISIBILITY

Agreat many great thinkers have acknowledged the importance of constancy to purpose. Purpose is simply the vision you have for an improvement over existing circumstances. If your vision is not clear or if it is not aligned with the organizational vision, you could be doing irreparable harm to your own career.

As Manchester Consulting reported (“Why Do Newly Promoted Managers Fail?” Recruiting and Retaining, sample issue, page 4), the primary reason for failure among newly promoted managers is the inability to work well with others. The second reason is a lack of understanding about expectations between new managers and their ...

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