a. How has your greatest success also been your greatest failure? What impact has the “tyranny of competence” had on your development as a leader in the broader organization?

b. Individual Contributor to Manager: With your own career in mind, review Table 12.1 on page 111. Are you more of an Individual Contributor or a Manager? If a contributor, do you see opportunities for you to become more of a manager? If you are a manager, what specific areas have you moved from being a contributor to a manager?

c. Manager to Leader: (Use Table 14.1 on page 123.) This is really just an extension of the “moving from contributor to manager” above. For which paradigms have you moved from being a manager to that of a leader? Again, identify specific areas of your work where you have moved to the leadership paradigm.