From the course: Navigating Organizational Politics as a Senior Leader
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Case study: How prioritizing strategic relationships allowed this executive to build a wide political network
From the course: Navigating Organizational Politics as a Senior Leader
Case study: How prioritizing strategic relationships allowed this executive to build a wide political network
- I want to tell you a story about one of the most successful and impressive leaders I've ever met. She was only 43 when she was promoted into one of the six executive vice president positions in a company that's got over 60,000 employees and which operates across three continents and 26 countries. She was, she still is highly respected in the company and in her industry, and she's extremely impressive, both personally and professionally. And one day, I was asking her about her career and she told me something I have always remembered. It was this. It was right from the start of her career, when she was still very junior, she made a point of mapping her stakeholders and managing her partners, which meant that at the start of every month, she'd sit down and she'd think through, who did she need something from? Who could she potentially help? Who were the people who had a lot of power and a lot of interest in what she…
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