Managing Your Career by Linda Hill see pics for article. I am writing a review o

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Managing Your Career by Linda Hill see pics for article. I am writing a review of the article for my TELS 3340 class. Thanks for any help you can assist with.

Harvard Business School 9-494-082 Rev. December 15, 1998 Managing Your Career To survive in today's unforgiving economy, corporations are reworking the employer- employee contract. Job security and vertical mobility have been severely curtailed; managerial careers are no longer straightforward or predictable. Managers have to be prepared continually to l grow as their organizations change in response to the dynamic competitive environment Indeed, to build successful and personally satisfying careers, managers must take charge of their careers and become self directed learners willing to reinvent themselves time and again. They have to proactively pursue or create developmental opportunities-experiences and relationships from which they can learn. They need to understand how to capitalize on them and thereby update and broaden their expertise to ensure that they can contribute to organizational performance. earn and How Managers Learn and Develop Management is an art requiring a mix of talents. Most managers understand that to be effective they must do a great deal of task learning throughout their careers. They have to acquire expertise in the technical, conceptual (e g., strategy formulation), and human (e g, interpersonal) arenas.3 And the task learning is only one part of the story. Managers also have personal learning to do, that is, adopting a psychological perspective, attitudes, and values consistent with their roles and responsibilities. To be effective, managers must be prepared to learn about themselves (their identity strengths, and limitations), be willing to make necessary changes, and cope with the associated stress 1 This note provides a framework for understanding how to manage your career-especially early and mid- career from a power and influence point of view (see "Power Dynamics in Organizations," HBS No. 494-083, for a thorough discussion of power and where it comes from) The conceptualization in this note has been heavily influenced by the work of John P. Kotter, Morgan W. McCall, Jr., and Edgar H.Schein 2See, for example, M. W. McCall, "Developing Leadership," in J. R. Galbrath and E. E. Lawler, Organizing for the utu: The New iogic for Managing Complex Organizations (San Francis:ossey-Bass, 1993), pp. 256-284. SFor a discussion of the varying mix of expertise required at different levels of management and in different functional areas, see for example: N. Fondas, "A Behavioral Job Description for Managers," Organizationai Dumanres, Summer 1992, pp. 47-58; R. L. Katz, “Skills of an Effective Administrator," Harvrd Business Review, Septmber-October 1974, pp. 90-103; H. Mintzberg, "The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact," Harvard Business Revie, July-August 1975, pp. 49-71; and R. Stewart, Choices for the Manager (Englewood Cliff, N.J.: Prentice Hal, 1982) Professor Linda A. Hill prepared this note to be used in the second year MBA elective course, Porwer and Influence. This note should be used in conjunction with the note, "Beyond the Myth of the Perfect Mentor," HBS No. 491-096. it is intended as the basis for class discussion Copyright © 1994 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, call 1-800-545-7685, write Harvard Business School Publishing. Boston, MA 02163, or go to http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, used in a spreadsheet, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise-without th e permission of Harvard Business School.

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The article to a very large extent explains deeply how to groom oneself to be a leader by adopting methodologies like building a network, enhancing the skillset, looking for projects that challenge the status quo and offers high visibility , being recognised. Though there is focus on leadership skills and the idea of honing the same, the subject would have been more exhaustive if the concepts could have been driven from the management schools.

A stronger focus on the individual personalty and developing managerial and leadership skills in different kinds of business environment citing examples would have been a more connecting approach. In addition, the assesment chart for the career is very apt as it helps in performing individual assessment in a very systematic and objective manner.

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