First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

by Gallup Press

The Summit If you can respond positively to all of the Q12 items, then you have reached the summit. Your focus is clear. You feel a recurring sense of achievement, as though the best of you is being called upon and the best of you responds every single day. You look around and see others who also seem to thrill to the challenge of their work. Buoyed by your mutual understanding and your shared purpose, you climbers look out and forward to the challenges marching over the horizon. It is not easy to remain at the summit for long, with the ground shifting beneath your feet and the strong winds buffeting you this way and that. But while you are there, it is quite a feeling. If this is the psychological climb you made (or failed to make) from the moment you began your current role to the moment you felt fully engaged in this role, then where are you? Camp 1? Camp 3? The summit? Ask yourself to respond to those 12 items. Your answers can give you a read on where you are on the mountain.