Building a Career in Stage-3

If You are Secondarily Cause-centred

If you combine secondary cause-centredness with being primarily market-centred, you can settle effectively and comfortably in this Mode without limiting your ambitions at all. You will certainly enjoy exercising and developing your expertise and knowledge. Your status and earnings can increase in a variety of ways:

  • By rising in the managerial hierarchy according to your capability (see drop down box).
  • By being a troubleshooter using your expertise, a logical method, plus your in-depth experience.
  • By using your reputation and extensive network to set up and head your own specialist company or consultancy business.

Your intrinsic management ability will affect how high in the hierarchy you rise. The first step is usually to become chief of a function or specialized department within which you have worked.

As your management capability matures, you can control ever larger budgets, take on ever larger projects and run ever larger departments in ever larger firms. See more on capability in

Your approach for achieving will tend to be value-driven: i.e. it will emphasize principles, keep abreast of established knowledge and proclaim the need for innovation.

As CEO, your management approach should become increasingly empirical. You have to deal with the facts—with indicators of company operations and staff performance. Good financial information, market intelligence, and activity data are vital because they are your way of cutting through elaborate arguments and prognostications of your senior cause-centred experts.

If you are strongly systematic or a systemicist decision-maker, you will prefer well-structured project management methods.

If You are Primarily Cause-centred

The triple combination of principles: hard work and good deals (market-centred), strength and self-control (power-centred) and specialist expertise (cause-centred) is hard to beat. Any of the options identified above would probably serve you well.

However, if you discover that you are primarily cause-centred and only job-focused by necessity, then be aware that you may be power-centred as a secondary Mode. This combination is common amongst professionals.

More seriously, perhaps you are primarily power-centred and secondarily cause-centred. (It would be best to review and make your own judgement about this now.) In any case, combining power- and cause- mentalities in an organization, can lead to difficulties.
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Originally posted: July 2009