Executive transitions

How to successfully take up an executive role?

Moving to a top executive position brings with it many unique challenges. Adjusting to the new rules of play can be difficult. What needs to change in terms of your mindset? How has the transition affected your professional identity? What is success?

If change is to be successful, it invariably entails leaving something behind and developing alternative points of view. How best to achieve this? How should reasoned decisions be balanced against intuitive judgments? Is it somehow possible to move forward and achieve sustainable results by drawing on your functional expertise and the things that have made you successful so far or not?