Different paths out of transition Early research into how we manage ourselves through life’s dramatic transitions showed that they tend to lead to three distinct outcomes. Either we are broken by the experience, we are unchanged by it, or we grow because of it. Our community of transitioning leaders fell into the same three outcome […]
Stepping into the Unknown What surprised us most, in our community of transitioning leaders, was that the roles we stepped into seemed to be governed by different rules than we had expected, and exposed us to different behaviours than we were used to. Sometimes the differences were small. Sometimes they were extreme. But even when […]
A new way to think about leadership transitions If you’re familiar with Summit Leadership, there’s good chance you know that our work is guided by the outcomes of an eight year deep-dive into the limitations of conventional approaches to helping leaders through their transitions. You might also know that the doctoral dissertation that came out […]