The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success

Much as Good to Great described what separates top companies from the rest, The Next Level shows new, current, and future executives what differentiates success and failure at the executive level. Every day, high performers are tapped to be executives and then left alone to figure out how to function successfully in their new role. When this happens, most new executives rely on strengths that served them well earlier in their careers. As executive coach Scott Eblin explains, this is why 40 percent of them fail. Moving successfully to the executive level requires knowing which behaviors and beliefs to drop, as well as which new ones to pick up. Like having a personal executive coach, this confidence-building book outlines a program for success for new and future executives and offers frank advice from accomplished senior executives on what to do and to avoid.

Scott Eblin, a former Fortune 500 HR executive with more than twenty years of experience, is an executive coach, speaker, and author. As president of The Eblin Group, he helps clients successfully navigate the changing landscape of leadership. His clients include executives in private and public sector organizations such as AOL, Capital One, Northrop Grumman, Sallie Mae, and The World Bank. He is a graduate of Davidson College, Harvard University, and Georgetown University's leadership coaching certificate program, where he is also on the faculty.