Peer-to-Manager Transition

The organizational shift that occurs when an individual contributor is promoted to manage former...

Peer-to-Manager Transition

The organizational shift that occurs when an individual contributor is promoted to manage former colleagues. 

This transition fails more frequently than any other leadership transition in mid-market companies because it requires simultaneously unlearning the behaviours that produced promotion (individual execution excellence) and learning behaviours that require restraint of those same instincts (delegation, empowerment, outcome ownership).