Picking the Right Transition Strategy

Can you imagine yourself in the moment that you have to transit from one situation to another?! There are so many times in the managers and leaders work life through which they have to accept new roles. through this transition of new roles, it is not only the job which is going to differ in compare to the previous job. But also this transition in leadership role make the leader see new opportunities and threats around the new environment and has to make so many novel changes in some aspects as well.

In these kind of situations, leaders have to transit into new strategies. Watkins (2009) has argued that "Transitions into significant new roles are the most challenging times in the professional lives of managers."

So deciding on the best alternative is one the most important issues for the leaders and managers in moments of transition. As the matter of fact, it can be said that, people learn from their mistakes; meaning to say that in the process of accepting new roles, managers can and had better "refer" to their previous experiences. But the most dangerous point for a leader is "relying" on the previous strategy. Leaders in transition should always keep in mind that new opportunities bring new environment with themselves. So if they want to rely on their previous skills and strategies which they adapt in their previous role, they would fall down very soon. What they have to do is, they must first of all sense the new situation thoroughly and find out all the specifications of the new environment (skills, resources, ...). Second, leaders should investigate the opportunities and threats which lie in the new situation and third, they ought to decide the best strategy based on the new resources and opportunities.

Michael Watkins, developed a model which is called STARS and claimed that leaders in transition can achieve the most by the usage of this model.

STARS is an acronym for Startup, Turnaround, Accelerated Growth, Realignment ,and Sustaining Success. According to his model, when you as a leader enter a new situation you are going to face either of these situation and accordingly you have to pick the most correct strategy.

In Start-Up everything should be assembled from a scratch to get a new business or initiative off the ground.

Turnaround, deals with saving a business or initiative widely acknowledged to be in serious trouble.

Accelerated Growth is managing a rapidly expanding business.

Realignment which is the most easiest situation re-energizes a previously successful organization that now faces problems.

And at the end Sustaining Success which comes in on the heels of a highly regarded leader with a stellar record of accomplishment.

Regarding to each of these environments, there are some Organizational and couple of Personal Changes which have to be made by the leader. Organizational changes are more concerned with the cultural and political matters, or even sometimes result in paying off a great percentage of employees (structural changes can be mentioned), while Personal changes deal with the style and flexibility of the leader. For instance, the leader can figure out as a "hero" in Turnaround, through which leader charges against the enemy, sword in hand. People line up behind the leader (hero) in times of trouble. Or he can act a steward, who is more patient and systematic than heroes in deciding which people, processes and other resources to preserve and which to discard.

Reference:
Watkins M. D. (2009). Picking the Right Transition Strategy. Harvard Business Review. January 2009. Page:47-53.

Re-Birth

It has been so long since first and last time I wrote here. Since that time lots of things have happened and many things have happened in my life. I feel like more than 10 years have past in the last 10 months...anyway...God is great and still the good remains and bad is dead at the end the movie and the life is STILL in its way to no-where...
The most important things are, I love life and I love trying all my best to achieve all those achievements that I have set for myself in all the tiring moments of the last few months...

My MBA is almost done and at this stage I have both feelings of relief and fear at the same time!! Relief, because I DID what I decided to do one day, and fear, because my expectations from myself are higher now!!

From now on I am planning to write here about all the things that I learn... For now, I can just say that God is Great and Love us all... this is something that we should learn and repeat for ourselves hundred times a day... So I start my blogging again in his name... May God Bless Us All ... Amen

Mind

Step by step, the further we go through life we get to know many new identities as well as getting familiar to new figures; get connected to a huge sense that we call it ‘the world’, we FEEL its creatures and try to get in touch with them, try to Enjoy the time on this round jagged surface. On the other hand, facing with the times as it goes round things alter in some ways that they are quite opposite the way it was fluttering. You will be perplexed about the fucking reasons. What can be done about the upwards and downwards of this mundane world which seems invulnerable? And this is just where the shoe pinches! Is it the world that changes its direction every now and then or some other dominant causes are playing the part?

We, people, as always have been, just blame others for our own faults but when it comes to destiny “who is at fault?” In other words, as the time passes by, you are feeling kind of blue and everything goes wrong, after many solid years you think all your efforts were in vain…

Who is responsible for every aspect of these misfortune happenings? Can any person do these things to us worse than we, ourselves, do??!!!!!!

So every event that occurs in this world is nothing but a perception which is made in our MIND and our mind is a sweet, innocent baby which is nourishing from our viewpoint through this whole path that cradle is its dawn and grave is its dusk and we call it LIFE!!!! It IS up to you to look positive or …