You're competing against colleagues in a horse race for a plum executive post. Everyone likes your work, so you expect to win. You're wrong. It takes more than superior performance to cross the finish line nowadays, as corporate boards have increased their focus on management succession. At the same time, boards rarely divulge the additional requirements that executives must meet to land a senior spot.
"Most companies do a really bad job of communicating what people need to win,'' says John Beeson, a succession-planning consultant and author of "The Unwritten Rules,'' a book about executive advancement. "You usually are operating in the dark in a horse race.''
It's such a mystery that recruiters Spencer Stuart even compiled a handbook for internal candidates….
Read all about it at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204781804577269282214023456.html?mod=WSJ_Careers_CareerJournal_2
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