Her Place at the Table
A Women's Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success
Chapter One
Drill Deep:
Negotiating the
Intelligence for
Informed Decisions
It is a truism that information is a prized asset in today's complex,
often matrixed organizations. Few leaders would launch
any new project without careful preparation, yet they frequently
take on visible, high-profile assignments optimistic that they
can make them work once on the job. By contrast, in overwhelming
numbers, the women we talked to who successfully
navigated difficult and visible new assignments counted good
preliminary intelligence among their most valuable tools.
Drilling deep not only enabled them to determine whether the
role was a good fit for them, it also helped them negotiate the
conditions of their success before they set foot in their new
offices.
Moreover, these leaders went after a particular kind of intelligence.
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