8 Insights from
42 Rules For Your New
Leadership Role
"When I mentor leaders who want to advance, I offer the guidance you’ll find in this book: Be bold in seeing opportunities and tackling tough issues, build your visibility strategically, and take responsibility for your own development."
- Genevieve Haldeman, VP, Corporate Communications, Symantec
What Am I Supposed To Do?
Praised by executives as “the essential pocket guide to navigating those critical first few months,” Pam’s book, “42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager” helps you avoid common missteps and gives you new strategies for acing those critical first months.
#1 Start Well
Be eager to start, yet wise about starting well; considerate, but not spineless; collaborative, rather than adversarial. Let your tone suit the culture and your own leadership style.
#2 Don't Be Clueless
You must have a point of view. From Day One. As a leader, you can be wrong. You can be misinformed. You can be too pessimistic or optimistic. You cannot be clueless.
#3 Does Smoke Mean Fire?
Determine whether smoke means fire. Sometimes you’ll be forced into playing firefighter immediately. If that’s the case, rush to the scene of the inferno, grab a hose, do your best to find qualified firefighters, and get back to your real job of leading your group to results.
#4 Build Trust
Build trust with your team members. Earning and keeping the trust of your team is one of your most important challenges as a leader. Your team members will give you the goods only to the degree they trust you to act in their best interests.
#5 Handle Change Management Well
Recognize the change management challenges. What seems like a modest change to you can be a big change to the people involved. Many people are change-averse, although few will say so to you. Do not underestimate the time, emotional energy, and communication required from you to make this successful.
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#6 Consider Silence
You might just close your mouth and see what happens.
In the presence of your attentive silence, people might find answers to their own problems.
#7 Run Fascinating Meetings
What makes meetings fascinating? Crucial content, latest news, big questions, real points of view and dissent, vital decisions, and determining who gets to do what. Add a dash of good humor, sincere appreciation, and friendly competition, and voilà! You have must-make meetings.
#8 Make Firm Commitments
Make firm commitments to do the top things that keep you healthy and sane, such as working out, eating well, play time with your kids, sleeping at least seven hours.
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About the Author: Pam Fox Rollin
Pam Fox Rollin coaches executives and teams to lead even more effectively at companies throughout the Bay Area and across the world.
Drawing on 20 years of experience in strategy consulting, management education, team building, and leadership development, Pam is known as a dynamic speaker and valuable thought-partner to people leading their organizations through complex change.
Pam’s book, 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role made Amazon’s Top 10 in Management & Leadership and is being hailed as the essential pocket guide for leaders.
Praise For This Book!
“I wish I had this book early in my career! By now, I’ve seen hundreds of people start leadership roles—from senior executives to customer-facing team leads—some starting brilliantly, some struggling unnecessarily. This book points you to the actions that make all the difference in those critical early months.”
- Peter Aceto, CEO, ING DIRECT, Canada
“This book will be useful when you start and as a framework throughout your career as you take on ever more challenging roles. You’ll especially value, as I do, Pam’s perspective on building the relationships and fact base that make extraordinary work possible.”
- Steven Tallman, Partner & VP, Global Operations, Bain & Company
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