Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xv
Pre-Flight (Huntington Industrials) xxiii
Introduction: Wing Walking-An Executive's Sudden Rise to Power 1
In Flight (Huntington Industrials) 20
Section I Ascend
Chapter 1 Altitude Sickness: Acclimatizing to the Realities of Executive Leadership 27
In Flight (Huntington Industrials) 41
Chapter 2 Distinguishing Your Organization's Different Altitudes: Transitioning to the Strategic System 47
In Flight (Huntington Industrials) 61
Section II Adjust
Chapter 3 Planning Your Shift to the Strategic System: Separating from What You Left Behind 67
In Flight (Huntington Industrials)p87
Chapter 4 Altitudinal Distortions: How You and the World Look Different from Up Here 91
In Flight (Huntington Industrials) 117
Section III Assert
Chapter 5 Executive Power: Perversions, Abuses, and the Greater Good 123
In Flight (Huntington Industrials) 155
Chapter 6 Managing Expectations: Translating Chronic Failure and Unrealistic Demands into Kept Promises 159
In Flight (Huntington Industrials) 173
Section IV Affect
Chapter 7 The Exceptional Executive: Powerful Leadership in Action 181
In Flight (Huntington Industrials) 211
Chapter 8 Powerful Organizations that Build Exceptional Executives: The Systemic Levers of Breadth, Context, Choice, and Connection 215
Epilogue: Controlled Burns: Committing to Your Rise by Leaving Behind What Got You Here to Create Something Exceptional 231
Final Approach (Huntington Industrials) 239
Appendix 243
Notes 253
Index 257